Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55738
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Core 3 FEDORA-2005-1030 (pam)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to pam announced via advisory FEDORA-2005-1030. PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication. Update Information: This update fixes a security bug in unix_chkpwd allowing brute force attacks against passwords in /etc/shadow by a regular user when SELinux is enabled. * Wed Oct 26 2005 Tomas Mraz 0.77-66.2.13 - fixed CVE-2005-2977 unix_chkpwd should skip user verification only if run as root (#168181) - support no tty in pam_access (#170467) - support unlimited limits (#171546) - allow larger buffer for getgr* functions - flush input first, then print the prompt in misc_conv - improve the passwd-order patch so it doesn't regress passwd on the NIS master server * Mon Jan 24 2005 Tomas Mraz - ALLGROUP and ALL limits weren't correctly applied by pam_limits - Fix a typo in pam_localuser README Solution: Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/ This update can also be installed with the Update Agent you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2005-1030 Risk factor : Medium CVSS Score: 2.1
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 15217 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2977 1015111 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015111 15217 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15217 17346 http://secunia.com/advisories/17346 17350 http://secunia.com/advisories/17350 17352 http://secunia.com/advisories/17352 17365 http://secunia.com/advisories/17365 ADV-2005-2227 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2227 GLSA-200510-22 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-22.xml RHSA-2005:805 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-805.html http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/NEWS?rev=1.6&view=markup https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168181 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10193 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10193
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