Ubuntu 8.10 / 9.04 : pam vulnerability (USN-828-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 40906

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Russell Senior discovered that the system authentication module selection mechanism for PAM did not safely handle an empty selection.
If an administrator had specifically removed the default list of modules or failed to chose a module when operating debconf in a very unlikely non-default configuration, PAM would allow any authentication attempt, which could lead to remote attackers gaining access to a system with arbitrary privileges. This did not affect default Ubuntu installations.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/828-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 40906

File Name: ubuntu_USN-828-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/9/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-cracklib, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-runtime, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam0g-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3232

CWE: 287

USN: 828-1