Linux: Lockout time for locked accounts

The lockout time for locked accounts can be set in two modules: - pamtally2: The login counter tallying module - pamfaillock: Module counting authentication failures during a specified interval Use the unlocktime=n option to re-enable login after n seconds after the lock out. Copyright C 2020...

Linux: Password hashing algorithm

The hashing algorithm can be set in following module: - pamunix: Module for traditional password authentication Use the sha512 option to enforce encryption with the SHA512 algorithm. If the SHA512 algorithm is not known to the crypt function, fall back to MD5. Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks...

Linux: Read password configuration files (KB)

When a PAM aware privilege granting application is started, it activates its attachment to the PAM-API. This activation performs a number of tasks, the most important being the reading of the configuration files: /etc/pam.conf. Alternatively, this may be the contents of the /etc/pam.d/ directory...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: pure-ftpd-1.0.49-3.fc31

Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality, standard-comformant FTP server, based upon Troll-FTPd. Unlike other popular FTP servers, it has no known security flaw, it is really trivial to set up and it is especially designed for modern Linux and FreeBSD kernels setfsuid, sendfile, capabilities...

Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerability

Updated MariaDB packages fix security vulnerabilities: Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequentl...

MGASA-2020-0072 Updated mariadb packages fix security vulnerability

Updated MariaDB packages fix security vulnerabilities: Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Client. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequentl...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for pam (EulerOS-SA-2018-1375)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for openssh (EulerOS-SA-2016-1053)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : sudo Vulnerability (NS-SA-2020-0004)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has sudo packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cause...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.5.0 : sudo (EulerOS-SA-2020-1086)

According to the version of the sudo package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and sessio...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for util-linux (openSUSE-SU-2019:2121-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for samba (openSUSE-SU-2019:2142-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

CVE-2018-20781

In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM daemon. This can expose the credential in cleartext...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19882

shadow 4.8, in certain circumstances affecting at least Gentoo, Arch Linux, and Void Linux, allows local users to obtain root access because setuid programs are misconfigured. Specifically, this affects shadow 4.8 when compiled using --with-libpam but without explicitly passing...

CVE-2019-19882

shadow 4.8, in certain circumstances affecting at least Gentoo, Arch Linux, and Void Linux, allows local users to obtain root access because setuid programs are misconfigured. Specifically, this affects shadow 4.8 when compiled using --with-libpam but without explicitly passing...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19882

shadow 4.8, in certain circumstances affecting at least Gentoo, Arch Linux, and Void Linux, allows local users to obtain root access because setuid programs are misconfigured. Specifically, this affects shadow 4.8 when compiled using --with-libpam but without explicitly passing...

CVE-2019-19882

shadow 4.8, in certain circumstances affecting at least Gentoo, Arch Linux, and Void Linux, allows local users to obtain root access because setuid programs are misconfigured. Specifically, this affects shadow 4.8 when compiled using --with-libpam but without explicitly passing...

CVE-2019-19882

CVE-2019-19882 affects Shadow 4.8 when built with --with-libpam but without --disable-account-tools-setuid and without a PAM config compatible with setuid tools, enabling local users to escalate to root via account-management utilities (groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, useradd, userdel, usermod). Th...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : sudo (EulerOS-SA-2019-2414)

According to the version of the sudo package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cau...

EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : sudo (EulerOS-SA-2019-2304)

According to the version of the sudo package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In Sudo before 1.8.28, an attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cau...