RHEL 4 : coreutils (RHSA-2008:0780)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33586

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

Updated coreutils packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

The coreutils package contains the core GNU utilities. It is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

The coreutils packages were found to not use the pam_succeed_if Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) correctly in the configuration file for the 'su' command. Any local user could use this command to change to a locked or expired user account if the target account's password was known to the user running 'su'. These updated packages, correctly, only allow the root user to switch to locked or expired accounts using 'su'. (CVE-2008-1946)

All users of coreutils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolve this issue.

Solution

Update the affected coreutils package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-1946

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0780

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33586

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0780.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/25/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:coreutils, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 7/24/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/28/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-1946

CWE: 264

RHSA: 2008:0780