The Gentoo MLDonkey ebuild adds a user to the system with a valid login shell and no password. Change the p2p user's shell to disallow login
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 9 |
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![]() | Default credentials | 30 Oct 200719:46 | – | prion |
![]() | CVE-2007-5714 | 3 Oct 202216:14 | – | debiancve |
![]() | CVE-2007-5714 | 30 Oct 200719:46 | – | nvd |
![]() | CVE-2007-5714 | 30 Oct 200719:46 | – | cve |
![]() | MLDonkey: Privilege escalation | 24 Oct 200700:00 | – | gentoo |
![]() | CVE-2007-5714 | 21 May 202523:37 | – | redhatcve |
![]() | CVE-2007-5714 | 30 Oct 200719:00 | – | cvelist |
![]() | GLSA-200710-25 : MLDonkey: Privilege escalation | 25 Oct 200700:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200710-25 (mldonkey) | 24 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
Source | Link |
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bugs | www.bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi |
securityspace | www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc.
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58704");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-5714");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_version("2023-07-19T05:05:15+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-19 05:05:15 +0000 (Wed, 19 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-09-24 21:14:03 +0200 (Wed, 24 Sep 2008)");
script_name("Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200710-25 (mldonkey)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("Gentoo Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/gentoo", "ssh/login/pkg");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The Gentoo MLDonkey ebuild adds a user to the system with a valid login
shell and no password.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Change the p2p user's shell to disallow login. For example, as root run the
following command:
# usermod -s /bin/false p2p
NOTE: updating to the current MLDonkey ebuild will not remove this
vulnerability, it must be fixed manually. The updated ebuild is to prevent
this problem from occurring in the future.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200710-25");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189412");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory GLSA 200710-25.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("pkg-lib-gentoo.inc");
include("revisions-lib.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
report = "";
if ((res = ispkgvuln(pkg:"net-p2p/mldonkey", unaffected: make_list("ge 2.9.0-r3"), vulnerable: make_list("lt 2.9.0-r3"))) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if (report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
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