SciLinux: 2008-07-24 Low Severity Coreutils Authentication Issue

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:19:23 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for coreutils on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Low: coreutils security update
Issue date:	2008-07-24
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1946

The coreutils packages were found to not use the pam_succeed_if Pluggable
Authentication Module (PAM) correctly in the configuration file for the
"su" command. Any local user could use this command to change to a locked
or expired user account if the target account's password was known to the
user running "su". These updated packages, correctly, only allow the root
user to switch to locked or expired accounts using "su". (CVE-2008-1946)

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
coreutils-5.2.1-31.8.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
coreutils-5.2.1-31.8.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
coreutils-5.2.1-31.8.el4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson