National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2009-0360)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0360

Original release date:02/13/2009

Last revised:03/08/2011

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Russ Allbery pam-krb5 before 3.13, when linked against MIT Kerberos, does not properly initialize the Kerberos libraries for setuid use, which allows local users to gain privileges by pointing an environment variable to a modified Kerberos configuration file, and then launching a PAM-based setuid application.

Description

Per vendor advisory: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2009-02-11.html "This advisory is only for my pam-krb5 module, as distributed from my web site and packaged by Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.2 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 1.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (02/13/2009)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the pam_krb5 package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0979

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0979

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0426

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0426

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-0410

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0410

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-719-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-719-1