Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63479
Category:	Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:	Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:062 (shadow-utils)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update to shadow-utils;announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:062.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update to shadow-utils announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:062. Vulnerability Insight: A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in login application from shadow-utils, which could allow local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry (CVE-2008-5394). The updated packages have been patched to prevent this. Note: Mandriva Linux is using login application from util-linux-ng by default, and therefore is not affected by this issue on default configuration. Affected: 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0 Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. CVSS Score: 7.2 CVSS Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5394 BugTraq ID: 32552 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32552 Bugtraq: 20081130 /bin/login gives root to group utmp (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498769/100/0/threaded https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7313 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-24.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:062 http://osvdb.org/52200 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4695 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-695-1 XForce ISS Database: debian-login-symlink(47037) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47037
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