CVE-2008-0884 (GCVE-0-2008-0884)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-04-04 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:01
VLAI
Summary
The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the (1) lspp-eal4-config-ibm and (2) capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a change to world-writable permissions for the /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0193.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019740 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28557 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/29642 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435442 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2008-04-01 00:00
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