Red Hat lspp-eal4-config-ibm and capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages insecure permissions
| redhat-lsppeal4config-insecure-permissions (41584) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Red Hat could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges, caused by insecure permissions assigned to the lspp-eal4-config-ibm and capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages. The "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" file is configured with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 4.6 |
| Access Vector: | Local |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3.4 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
Remedy:
Apply the appropriate update for your system.
References:
- BID-28557: Red Hat 'capp-lspp-config' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-0884: The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the (1) lspp-eal4-config-ibm and (2) capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a change to world-writable permissions for the /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.
- RHSA-2008-0193: lspp-eal4-config-ibm and capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp security update
- SA29642: Red Hat lspp-eal4-config-ibm / capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp Privilege Escalation
- SECTRACK ID: 1019740: Red Hat lspp-eal4-config-ibm and capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp Labeled Security Protection Profile Scripts Let Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
Platforms Affected:
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
Reported:
Apr 01, 2008
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