CVE-2008-1926 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1926
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Description: Argument injection vulnerability in login (login-utils/login.c) in util-linux-ng 2.14 and earlier makes it easier for remote attackers to hide activities by modifying portions of log events, as demonstrated by appending an "addr=" statement to the login name, aka "audit log injection."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41987 ST 1022256 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29982 Secunia Advisory: SA35161 Secunia Advisory: SA30014 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0981.html MISC http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=blobdiff;f=login-utils/login.c;h=230121316d953c59e7842c1325f6e9f326a37608;hp=aad27794327c60391b5148b367d2c79338fc6ee4;hb=8ccf0b253ac0f4f58d64bc9674de18bff5a88782;hpb=3a4a13b12a8065b0b5354686 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:114 FEDORA CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commit;h=8ccf0b253ac0f4f58d64bc9674de18bff5a88782 http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0143 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/507854/100/0/threaded BID 28983

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