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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:57:14 +0100
From: Arthur de Jong <arthur@...hurdejong.org>
To: nss-pam-ldapd-announce <nss-pam-ldapd-announce@...ts.arthurdejong.org>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: nss-pam-ldapd security advisory (CVE-2011-0438)
Russell Sim discovered a serious security vulnerability in development
release 0.8.0 of nss-pam-ldapd that allows authentication with an
incorrect password for local user accounts.
The PAM module will erroneously return a success code when the user
cannot be found in LDAP. Exploitability depends on the details of the
PAM configuration but on systems that don't use the minimum_uid PAM
option it may be possible to log in to any local account, including
root.
This problem only affects the 0.8.0 development release of
nss-pam-ldapd. Earlier releases are not affected.
This problem has been assigned CVE-2011-0438.
More details are available at:
http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/news.html#20110309
Affected users are advised to apply the attached patch, upgrade to 0.8.1
(which will be released shortly), downgrade to 0.7.13 or disable
nss-pam-ldapd's PAM module.
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