National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1283

Overview

opiepasswd in One-Time Passwords in Everything (OPIE) in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p22 through 6.1-STABLE before 20060322 uses the getlogin function to determine the invoking user account, which might allow local users to configure OPIE access to the root account and possibly gain root privileges if a root shell is permitted by the configuration of the wheel group or sshd.

Impact

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External Source: BID

Name: 17194

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17194

External Source: FREEBSD

Name: FreeBSD-SA-06:12

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:12.opie.asc

External Source: XF

Name: bsd-opie-unauthorized-privileges(25397)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25397

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1074

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1074

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 24067

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/24067

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015817

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015817

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19347

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19347