National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5360

Overview

Buffer overflow in OpenPegasus Management server, when compiled to use PAM and with PEGASUS_USE_PAM_STANDALONE_PROC defined, as used in VMWare ESX Server 3.0.1 and 3.0.2, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to PAM authentication, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0003.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/09/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect versions of tog-pegasus as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, or 5. For more details see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5360

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External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28358

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28358

External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5360

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5360

External Source: XF

Name: openpegasus-pam-bo(39524)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39524

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1391

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1391/references

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0064

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0064

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0063

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0063

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080108 VMSA-2008-0001 Moderate OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow and updated service console packages

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded

External Source: VIM

Name: 20080115 vuldb confusion between OpenPegasus issues

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-January/001879.html

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28368

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28368

External Source: MLIST

Name: [Security-announce] 20080107 VMSA-2008-0001 Moderate OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow and updated service console packages

Hyperlink:http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBMA02331

Hyperlink:http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01438409

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0001.html

Hyperlink:http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0001.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080123 UPDATED VMSA-2008-0001.1 Moderate OpenPegasus PAM Authentication Buffer Overflow and updated service console packages

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2008:002

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3538

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3538

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29986

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29986

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28636

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28636

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBMA02331

Hyperlink:http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01438409