pam security update
| Advisory: | RHSA-2003:028-12 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Security Advisory |
| Severity: | Important |
| Issued on: | 2003-01-28 |
| Last updated on: | 2003-03-19 |
| Affected Products: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1) Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor |
| CVEs (cve.mitre.org): |
CVE-2002-1160 |
Details
Updated PAM packages are now available. These packages correct a bug in
pam_xauth's handling of authorization data for the root user.
[Updated 12 March 2003]
Added packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux WS
The pam_xauth module is used to forward xauth information from user to user
in applications such as the su command.
Andreas Beck discovered that pam_xauth will forward authorization
information from the root account to unprivileged users. This could be
used by a local attacker to gain access to an administrator's X session.
To exploit this vulnerability the attacker would have to get the
administrator, as root, to use su to access the account belonging to the
attacker.
Users of pam_xauth are advised to upgrade to these errata packages which
contain a patch which adds ACL (access control list) functionality to
pam_xauth and disallows root forwarding by default.
Thanks to Andreas Beck for reporting this issue.
Solution
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
Updated packages
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.src.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 99751631043fbe42f98f8598e74e6d4b |
| IA-32: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 8ea6d868c28c22d629d2059f1ad72f1b |
| pam-devel-0.75-46.7.3.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 9fef754632838504c0590ba30203a925 |
| IA-64: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.ia64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: dde7fc232d4f07318c01490f6eb619c9 |
| pam-devel-0.75-46.7.3.ia64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 4ee1e8cebfe80fd7746fd242b37b7cfa |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 2.1) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.src.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 99751631043fbe42f98f8598e74e6d4b |
| IA-32: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 8ea6d868c28c22d629d2059f1ad72f1b |
| pam-devel-0.75-46.7.3.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 9fef754632838504c0590ba30203a925 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 2.1) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.src.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 99751631043fbe42f98f8598e74e6d4b |
| IA-32: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 8ea6d868c28c22d629d2059f1ad72f1b |
| pam-devel-0.75-46.7.3.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 9fef754632838504c0590ba30203a925 |
| Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for the Itanium Processor | |
| SRPMS: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.src.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 99751631043fbe42f98f8598e74e6d4b |
| IA-64: | |
| pam-0.75-46.7.3.ia64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: dde7fc232d4f07318c01490f6eb619c9 |
| pam-devel-0.75-46.7.3.ia64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2005:064 |
MD5: 4ee1e8cebfe80fd7746fd242b37b7cfa |
References
http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/newpam/tinkering.html
Keywords
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