Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.871433
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Update for pam RHSA-2015:1640-01
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'pam'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'pam' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) provide a system whereby administrators can set up authentication policies without having to recompile programs to handle authentication. It was discovered that the _unix_run_helper_binary() function of PAM's unix_pam module could write to a blocking pipe, possibly causing the function to become unresponsive. An attacker able to supply large passwords to the unix_pam module could use this flaw to enumerate valid user accounts, or cause a denial of service on the system. (CVE-2015-3238) Red Hat would like to thank Sebastien Macke of Trustwave SpiderLabs for reporting this issue. All pam users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue. Affected Software/OS: pam on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) Solution: Please Install the Updated Packages. CVSS Score: 5.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-3238 75428 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75428 FEDORA-2015-10830 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/161249.html FEDORA-2015-10848 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161350.html GLSA-201605-05 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-05 RHSA-2015:1640 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1640.html USN-2935-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-1 USN-2935-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-2 USN-2935-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-3 [oss-security] 20150625 Linux-PAM 1.2.1 released to address CVE-2015-3238 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/25/13 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228571 https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Security-Advisories/Advisories/TWSL2015-011/?fid=6551 https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/Username-Enumeration-against-OpenSSH-SELinux-with-CVE-2015-3238/
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