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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-5536

Original release date:02/22/2013

Last revised:03/08/2013

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

A certain Red Hat build of the pam_ssh_agent_auth module on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and Fedora Rawhide calls the glibc error function instead of the error function in the OpenSSH codebase, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or possibly gain privileges via crafted use of an application that relies on this module, as demonstrated by su and sudo.

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:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssh.git/commit/?id=4f4687ce8045418f678c323bb22c837f35d7b9fa

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/openssh.git/commit/?id=4f4687ce8045418f678c323bb22c837f35d7b9fa

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834618

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834618

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2013:0519

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0519.html