Debian Security Advisory
DSA-585-1 shadow -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 05 Nov 2004
- Affected Packages:
- shadow
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1001.
- More information:
-
A vulnerability has been discovered in the shadow suite which provides programs like chfn and chsh. It is possible for a user, who is logged in but has an expired password to alter his account information with chfn or chsh without having to change the password. The problem was originally thought to be more severe.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 20000902-12woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.3-30.3.
We recommend that you upgrade your passwd package (from the shadow suite).
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_20000902-12woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_20000902-12woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_20000902.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/shadow_20000902-12woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/login_20000902-12woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shadow/passwd_20000902-12woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.