CVE-2006-7108

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2006-01-09
Bugzilla:
1618255: CVE-2006-7108 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

login in util-linux-2.12a skips pam_acct_mgmt and chauth_tok when authentication is skipped, such as when a Kerberos krlogin session has been established, which might allow users to bypass intended access policies that would be enforced by pam_acct_mgmt and chauth_tok.

Find out more about CVE-2006-7108 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

This flaw has been rated as having a low severity by the Red Hat Security Response Team. More information about this rating can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

This flaw is currently being tracked via the following bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231449
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231448

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3 which are in maintenance mode.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (util-linux) RHSA-2007:0235 2007-05-01

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