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Subject:
Security ERRATA for coreutils on SL4.x i386/x86_64
From:
Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:19:23 -0500
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Synopsis:	Low: coreutils security update
Issue date:	2008-07-24
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1946

The coreutils packages were found to not use the pam_succeed_if Pluggable
Authentication Module (PAM) correctly in the configuration file for the
"su" command. Any local user could use this command to change to a locked
or expired user account if the target account's password was known to the
user running "su". These updated packages, correctly, only allow the root
user to switch to locked or expired accounts using "su". (CVE-2008-1946)

SL 4.x

    SRPMS:
coreutils-5.2.1-31.8.el4.src.rpm
    i386:
coreutils-5.2.1-31.8.el4.i386.rpm
    x86_64:
coreutils-5.2.1-31.8.el4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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