Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:062 (shadow-utils)
🗓️ 07 Mar 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.Type
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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 OR GPL-3.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63479");
script_version("2023-07-18T05:05:36+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-18 05:05:36 +0000 (Tue, 18 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-03-07 21:47:03 +0100 (Sat, 07 Mar 2009)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5394");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.2");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_name("Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:062 (shadow-utils)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 E-Soft Inc.");
script_family("Mandrake Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/mandriva_mandrake_linux", "ssh/login/rpms", re:"ssh/login/release=MNDK_(2008\.0|2008\.1|2009\.0|3\.0|4\.0|2\.0)");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in login
application from shadow-utils, which could allow local users in
the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on
a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp
entry (CVE-2008-5394).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Note: Mandriva Linux is using login application from util-linux-ng
by default, and therefore is not affected by this issue on default
configuration.
Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0,
Multi Network Firewall 2.0");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:062");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The remote host is missing an update to shadow-utils
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:062.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"shadow-utils", rpm:"shadow-utils~4.0.12~8.1mdv2008.0", rls:"MNDK_2008.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"shadow-utils", rpm:"shadow-utils~4.0.12~9.1mdv2008.1", rls:"MNDK_2008.1")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"shadow-utils", rpm:"shadow-utils~4.0.12~17.1mdv2009.0", rls:"MNDK_2009.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"shadow-utils", rpm:"shadow-utils~4.0.3~8.3.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_3.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"shadow-utils", rpm:"shadow-utils~4.0.12~2.1.20060mlcs4", rls:"MNDK_4.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"shadow-utils", rpm:"shadow-utils~4.0.3~8.3.C30mdk", rls:"MNDK_2.0")) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if (report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99);
}
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18 Jul 2023 00:00Current
6.4Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.4
CVSS 27.2
EPSS0.00949