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Secunia Advisory SA23330

FAI Exposure of Password Hashes
Secunia Advisory SA23330
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Release Date 2006-12-13
Last Update 2006-12-21
   
Popularity 5,408 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Unpatched
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia VIM
   
Software:
FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) 2.x
FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) 3.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-6614 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Justin R. Beckley has reported a security issue in fai-client, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to view administrator password hashes.

The security issue is caused due to the application storing the root password hash in a log file with insecure permissions when using the verbose mode during installation.

The security issue is reported in version 2.10 and 3.1.2. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Change the permissions of affected log files.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Justin R. Beckley

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=402644

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