Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58290
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0465
Summary:	Redhat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:0465
Description:	The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2007:0465. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system whereby administrators can set up authentication policies without having to recompile programs that handle authentication. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled certain SG_IO commands. Console users with access to certain device files had the ability to damage recordable CD drives. The way pam_console handled permissions of these files has been modified to disallow access. This change also required modifications to the cdrecord application. (CVE-2004-0813) A flaw was found in the way pam_console set console device permissions. It was possible for various console devices to retain ownership of the console user after logging out, possibly leaking information to an unauthorized user. (CVE-2007-1716) The pam_unix module provides authentication against standard /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. The pam_stack module provides support for stacking PAM configuration files. Both of these modules contained small memory leaks which caused problems in applications calling PAM authentication repeatedly in the same process. All users of PAM should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0465.html http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate Risk factor : Medium
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0813 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/7/30/147 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0465.html SGI Security Advisory: 20070602-01-P ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc BugTraq ID: 25749 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25749 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10011 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 http://secunia.com/advisories/25631 http://secunia.com/advisories/25894 http://secunia.com/advisories/26909 http://secunia.com/advisories/27706 XForce ISS Database: linux-sgio-gain-privileges(17505) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17505 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-1716 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0555.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0737.html http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11483 http://osvdb.org/37271 http://secunia.com/advisories/27590 http://secunia.com/advisories/28319
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