Executive Summary

Summary
Title New shadow packages fix privilege escalation
Informations
Name DSA-1150 First vendor Publication 2006-08-12
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2006-08-12
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

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:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A bug has been discovered in several packages that execute teh setuid() system call without checking for sucess when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.3-31sarge8.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.17-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your passwd package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1150

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 11

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1150-1 (shadow)
File : nvt/deb_1150_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
26995 shadow setuid Failure Local Privilege Escalation

Shadow contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to unauthorized privileges. The issue is triggered when passwd, called with the -f, -g, or -s option, did not check the result of the 'setuid' call. This flaw may lead to a loss of Confidentiality and Integrity.

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-308-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1150.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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