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Secunia Advisory SA14265

Gentoo webmin Encrypted Root Password Disclosure
Secunia Advisory SA14265
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Release Date 2005-02-14
   
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From local network
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Operating System
Gentoo Linux
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CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

Gentoo has issued an update for webmin. This fixes a security issue, which may disclose sensitive information to malicious people.

The encrypted root password is imported into the "miniserv.users" file, which is included in Portage-built binary packages. This can be exploited to gain knowledge of the encrypted root password for the host on which the webmin binary package has been built.


Solution
Update to "app-admin/webmin-1.170-r3" or later.

Provided and/or discovered by
Tavis Ormandy, Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team.

Original Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-12.xml

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