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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pam (MDVSA-2009:077)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36591

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in pam :

Integer signedness error in the _pam_StrTok function in libpam/pam_misc.c in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.0.3 and earlier, when a configuration file contains non-ASCII usernames, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and might allow remote authenticated users to obtain login access with a different user's non-ASCII username, via a login attempt (CVE-2009-0887).

The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.

Additionally some development packages were missing that are required to build pam for CS4, these are also provided with this update.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36591

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2009-077.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.6

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64pam-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64pam0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpam-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpam0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pam, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pam-doc, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0887

BID: 34010

CWE: 189

MDVSA: 2009:077