National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0579
Original release date:04/16/2009
Last revised:04/16/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Linux-PAM before 1.0.4 does not enforce the minimum password age (MINDAYS) as specified in /etc/shadow, which allows local users to bypass intended security policy and change their passwords sooner than specified.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/16/2009)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of pam as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5. Only PAM versions 1.x were affected.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-3231
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487216
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [pam-list] 20090309 Linux-PAM 1.0.4 released
Type: Advisory
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-3204
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34733
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34728
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514437