Executive Summary

Summary
Title libpam-sshauth security update
Informations
Name DSA-3567 First vendor Publication 2016-05-04
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2016-05-04
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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

It was discovered that libpam-sshauth, a PAM module to authenticate using an SSH server, does not correctly handle system users. In certain configurations an attacker can take advantage of this flaw to gain root privileges.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.1-1+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.1-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.1-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libpam-sshauth packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3567

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-287 Improper Authentication

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-05-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3567.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-05-10 21:38:04
  • Multiple Updates
2016-05-06 21:49:18
  • Multiple Updates
2016-05-06 13:32:24
  • Multiple Updates
2016-05-05 00:25:22
  • First insertion