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Secunia Advisory SA31096

openSUSE libxcrypt MD5 Password Hash Configuration Weakness
Secunia Advisory SA31096
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Release Date 2008-07-21
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Security Bypass
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
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Operating System
openSUSE 11.0
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-3188 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

SUSE has acknowledged a weakness in libxcrypt, which results in potentially weaker security and may allow further attacks.

The weakness is caused due to libxcrypt using the DES algorithm to generate password hashes, although the MD5 algorithm is configured in /etc/default/passwd.


Solution
Apply updated packages and regenerate all passwords.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Thomas Schulte

Original Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00008.html

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408719

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