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Mageia 9 - MGASA-2024-0335: Critical oath-toolkit Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2024
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The latest oath-toolkit updates resolve a critical vulnerability that could lead to unauthorized privilege escalation. For detailed information, check out the Mageia advisory.
pam_oath.so in oath-toolkit 2.6.7 through 2.6.11 before 2.6.12 allows root privilege escalation because, in the context of PAM code running as root, it mishandles usersfile access,...

Summary

pam_oath.so in oath-toolkit 2.6.7 through 2.6.11 before 2.6.12 allows root privilege escalation because, in the context of PAM code running as root, it mishandles usersfile access, such as by calling fchown in the presence of a symlink. (CVE-2024-47191)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33619

- https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-security@lists.archlinux.org/message/IDKMOOVTHHDXCEEZ2S4VVYLM3N5QBPJA/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47191

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation Mageia oath-toolkit PAM access

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/oath-toolkit-2.6.7-1.1.mga9

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Publication date: 25 Oct 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0335.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-47191

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation Mageia oath-toolkit PAM access

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