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CVE-2008-1946

Impact:: Low
Public Date:: 2008-07-24

Bugzilla:: 446488: CVE-2008-1946 /etc/pam.d/su is wrong in RHEL-4.6

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The default configuration of su in /etc/pam.d/su in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 allows local users to gain the privileges of a (1) locked or (2) expired account by entering the account name on the command line, related to improper use of the pam_succeed_if.so module.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1946 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (coreutils)	RHSA-2008:0780	2008-07-24

Last Modified 2018-05-01T14:59:58+00:00

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