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OracleVM 3.3 : pam (OVMSA-2015-0117)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85529

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Synopsis

The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates :

 - fix CVE-2015-3238 - DoS due to blocking pipe with very long password

 - make pam_pwhistory and pam_unix tolerant of opasswd file corruption

 - pam_userdb: allow any crypt hash algorithm to be used (#1119289)

 - pam_cracklib: improve documentation (#889233)

 - unbreak authentication if ld.so.preload is not empty

 - correct off by one error in account expiration calculation (#947011)

 - pam_console_apply: do not print error if console.perms.d is empty

 - properly handle all cases where crypt might return NULL (#1026203)

 - pam_limits: clarify documentation of maxsyslogins limit (#1028490)

 - pam_access: call DNS resolution only when necessary and cache results (#1029817)

 - pam_limits: nofile applies to file descriptors not files (#1040664)

 - pam_limits: check whether the utmp login entry is valid (#1054936)

 - correct URLs in spec file (#1071770)

 - pam_userdb: correct the example in man page (#1078779)

 - pam_selinux: canonicalize username for getseuser (#1083981)

 - pam_access: fix netgroup matching and @user@@netgroup parsing (#740233)

 - pam_tty_audit: allow for runtime backwards compatibility with old kernels

 - add option to pam_tty_audit to disable auditing of password input

Solution

Update the affected pam package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?5790b061

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85529

File Name: oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0117.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Published: 8/19/2015

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:vm:pam, cpe:/o:oracle:vm_server:3.3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3238

BID: 75428