Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a local malicious individual to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the passwd package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system can be exploited, leading to a violation of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by local malicious actors...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1150-1 (shadow)

The remote host is missing an update to shadow announced via advisory DSA 1150-1. A bug has been discovered in several packages that execute the setuid system call without checking for success when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1150-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : passwd (MDKSA-2001:091)

The default pam files for the passwd program did not include support for md5 passwords, thus any password changes or post-install added users would not have md5 passwords. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fr...