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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:49:23 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@...ed-net.gr>,
Dennis Gilmore <dennis@...il.us>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- pam_yubico -- Authentication bypass
via NULL password
On 11/07/2011 04:15 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
>
> a security flaw was found in the way pam_yubico, a pluggable
> authentication module for yubikeys, performed user authentication,
> when 'use_first_pass' PAM configuration option was not used and
> pam_yubico module was configured as 'sufficient' in the PAM
> configuration. A remote attacker could use this flaw to circumvent
> common authentication process and obtain access to the account in
> question by providing a NULL value (pressing Ctrl-D keyboard
> sequence) as the password string.
>
> Relevant upstream patch:
> [1]
> https://github.com/Yubico/yubico-pam/commit/4712da70cac159d5ca9579c1e4fac0645b674043
>
> References:
> [2]
> http://groups.google.com/group/yubico-devel/browse_thread/thread/3f179ec0e6845deb
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733322
>
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
>
Please use CVE-2011-4120 for this issue.
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
--
-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
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