National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0003
Original release date:01/23/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
pam_unix.so in Linux-PAM 0.99.7.0 allows context-dependent attackers to log into accounts whose password hash, as stored in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow, has only two characters.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (01/24/2007)
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Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of pam as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [pam-list] 20070123 Linux-PAM 0.99.7.1 released
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [fedora-devel-list] 20070122 Re: rawhide report: 20070120 changes
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [fedora-devel-list] 20070122 Re: rawhide report: 20070120 changes
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 32017
External Source: XF
Name: linuxpam-pamunix-security-bypass(31739)
External Source: BID
Name: 22204
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:003
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0323
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23858