Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-1926 First vendor Publication 2008-04-24
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Argument injection vulnerability in login (login-utils/login.c) in util-linux-ng 2.14 and earlier makes it easier for remote attackers to hide activities by modifying portions of log events, as demonstrated by appending an "addr=" statement to the login name, aka "audit log injection."

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1926

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9833
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9833
Title: Argument injection vulnerability in login (login-utils/login.c) in util-linux-ng 2.14 and earlier makes it easier for remote attackers to hide activities by modifying portions of log events, as demonstrated by appending an "addr=" statement to the login name, aka "audit log injection."
Description: Argument injection vulnerability in login (login-utils/login.c) in util-linux-ng 2.14 and earlier makes it easier for remote attackers to hide activities by modifying portions of log events, as demonstrated by appending an "addr=" statement to the login name, aka "audit log injection."
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-1926
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-05-20 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0981
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0981.nasl
2009-04-09 Name : Mandriva Update for util-linux-ng MDVSA-2008:114 (util-linux-ng)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2008_114.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for util-linux-ng FEDORA-2008-3419
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3419_util-linux-ng_fc8.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44656 util-linux-ng login-utils/login.c Audit Log Injection

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-06-29 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-0981.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-05-19 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0981.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update.
File : mandriva_MDVSA-2008-114.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3419.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28983
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507854/100/0/threaded
CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0143
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00624.html
MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:114
MISC http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3...
http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh...
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0981.html
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022256
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/29982
http://secunia.com/advisories/30014
http://secunia.com/advisories/35161
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1392/references
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41987

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