Summary: | <sys-libs/pam-1.1.8-r3: password hashes aren't compared case-sensitively | ||||||
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Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> | ||||
Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> | ||||
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||||||
Severity: | normal | CC: | pam-bugs+disabled, sudormrfhalt | ||||
Priority: | Normal | ||||||
Version: | unspecified | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038555 | ||||||
Whiteboard: | A3 [glsa] | ||||||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |||||
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Description
Agostino Sarubbo
2013-12-06 11:00:36 UTC
Created attachment 381764 [details, diff]
pam-1.1.8-cve-2013-7041.patch
CVE-2013-7041 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7041): The pam_userdb module for Pam uses a case-insensitive method to compare hashed passwords, which makes it easier for attackers to guess the password via a brute force attack. Upstream patch, https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/linux-pam.git/commit/?id=57a1e2b. Red-Hat considering it a very low issues. Maintainers please advise what is your opinion on this? should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Fix from upstream for password case checks http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/pam/files/pam-1.1.8-CVE-2013-7041.patch?rev=1.1 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/pam/pam-1.1.8-r3.ebuild?rev=1.1 sys-libs/pam-1.1.8-r3 has been in tree for quite some time. @arches, please stabilize. pam-1.2.1 is already stable Added to existing GLSA. Cleanup complete: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a0819b4caa858b34434c1d21217ffea94d76215b This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201605-05 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-05 by GLSA coordinator Yury German (BlueKnight). |