Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1150-1 shadow -- programming error

Date Reported:

12 Aug 2006

Affected Packages:

shadow

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 18850.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3378.

More information:

A bug has been discovered in several packages that execute the setuid() system call without checking for success when trying to drop privileges, which may fail with some PAM configurations.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.3-31sarge8.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.17-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your passwd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.0.3-31sarge8.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.0.3-31sarge8.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_4.0.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_4.0.3-31sarge8_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.0.3-31sarge8_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.