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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882253
Category:CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:CentOS Update for pam CESA-2015:1640 centos7
Summary:Check the version of pam
Description:Summary:
Check the version of pam

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 CentOS 7

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
BugTraq ID: 75428
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75428
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-June/161249.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/161350.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-05
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/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/25/13
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2015:1640
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1640.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-3
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH

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