FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Incorrect error handling in PAM policy parser (6e8f9003-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8)

The OpenPAM library searches for policy definitions in several locations. While doing so, the absence of a policy file is a soft failure handled by searching in the next location while the presence of an invalid file is a hard failure handled by returning an error to the caller. The policy parser...

openssh -- sshd -- remote valid user discovery and PAM /bin/login attack

The OpenSSH project reports: sshd8: Mitigate timing differences in password authentication that could be used to discern valid from invalid account names when long passwords were sent and particular password hashing algorithms are in use on the server. CVE-2016-6210, reported by EddieEzra.Harari ...

Exim 4 (Debian 8 Ubuntu 16.04) - Spool Privilege Escalation

Exim 4 Debian 8 Ubuntu 16.04 - Spool Privilege Escalation / -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello List, This is just a minor issue in Exim, no replies so far, so publication should be OK. Introduction: ============ Exim4 in some variants is started as root but switches to uid/gid...

SUSE-SU-2016:1645-1 Security update for pam

This update for pam fixes two security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2015-3238: pamunix in conjunction with SELinux allowed for DoS attacks bsc934920. - CVE-2013-7041: Compare password hashes case-sensitively bsc854480. This non-security issue was fixed: - bsc962220: Don't fail...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2016:1528-1)

openssh was updated to fix three security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-3115: Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH allowed remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data, related t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssh on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20160510)

Security Fixes : - It was found that the OpenSSH client did not properly enforce the ForwardX11Timeout setting. A malicious or compromised remote X application could possibly use this flaw to establish a trusted connection to the local X server, even if only untrusted X11 forwarding was requested...

SUSE-SU-2016:1528-1 Security update for openssh

openssh was updated to fix three security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-3115: Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH allowed remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data, related to...

openSUSE Security Update : openssh (openSUSE-2016-668)

This update for OpenSSH fixes three security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-3115: Sanitise input for xauth1 bsc970632 - CVE-2016-1908: Prevent X11 SECURITY circumvention when forwarding X11 connections bsc962313 - CVE-2015-8325: Ignore PAM environment when using login...

GLSA-201605-05 : Linux-PAM: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201605-05 Linux-PAM: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Linux-PAM. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : Remote attackers could cause Denial of Service,...

Linux-PAM: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Linux-PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Linux-PAM. Please...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : openssh (SUSE-SU-2016:1386-1)

This update for OpenSSH fixes three security issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-3115: Sanitise input for xauth1 bsc970632 - CVE-2016-1908: Prevent X11 SECURITY circumvention when forwarding X11 connections bsc962313 - CVE-2015-8325: Ignore PAM environment when using login...

SUSE-SU-2016:1343-1 Security update for salt

salt was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2016-3176: Insecure configuration of PAM external authentication service. Authenticating were able to specify the PAM service bsc972436...

openssh, pam_ssh_agent_auth security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:0741 An update for openssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

SOL20911042 - OpenSSH vulnerability CVE-2015-8325

This previously described configuration is not the default configuration, and is a very unlikely sshd configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Note the following: The default sshd configuration uses UseLogin=no. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, configurations with UseLogin=yes do not work i...

FreeBSD : OpenVPN -- Buffer overflow in PAM authentication and DoS through port sharing (0dc8be9e-19af-11e6-8de0-080027ef73ec)

Samuli Seppanen reports : OpenVPN 2.3.11 ... fixes two vulnerabilities: a port-share bug with DoS potential and a buffer overflow by user-supplied data when using pam authentication.... %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin wer...

RHEL 6 : openssh (RHSA-2016:0741)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0741 advisory. - openssh: XSECURITY restrictions bypass under certain conditions in ssh1 CVE-2015-5352 - openssh: Privilege separation weakness related to...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssh security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for openssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

openssh: Use-after-free bug related to PAM support

A use-after-free flaw was found in OpenSSH. An attacker able to fully compromise a non-privileged pre-authentication process using a different flaw could possibly cause sshd to crash or execute arbitrary code with root privileges...

BSA-2016-015

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2016-015 Component : OpenSSH Revision : 3.0: Final The dosetupenv function in session.c in sshd in OpenSSH through 7.2p2, when the UseLogin feature is enabled and PAM is configured to read .pamenvironment files in user home directories, allows local users to gain...

Libpam-sshauth Local Privilege Vulnerability

libpam-sshauth is a PAM module that can be used to authenticate users on a local computer by connecting to a remote server via ssh. A programming error in libpam-sshauth allows local attackers to exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges...