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>> Redhat Security Update Fixes Coreutils Security Bypass Vulnerability

Title : Redhat Security Update Fixes Coreutils Security Bypass Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2186
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1946
CWE ID : VUPEN VNS Only
CVSS V2 : VUPEN VNS Only
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-07-25


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A vulnerability has been identified in various Redhat products, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in coreutils that does not use the pam_succeed_if Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) correctly in the configuration file for the "su" command, which could allow a malicious user to change to a locked or expired user account via "su".

Affected Products

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :
https://rhn.redhat.com/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2186
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0780.html

ChangeLog

2008-07-25 : Initial release

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