Debian Security Advisory
DSA-659-1 libpam-radius-auth -- information leak, integer underflow
- Date Reported:
- 26 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- libpam-radius-auth
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1340, CVE-2005-0108.
- More information:
-
Two problems have been discovered in the libpam-radius-auth package, the PAM RADIUS authentication module. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following problems:
- CAN-2004-1340
The Debian package accidentally installed its configuration file /etc/pam_radius_auth.conf world-readable. Since it may possibly contain secrets all local users are able to read them if the administrator hasn't adjusted file permissions. This problem is Debian specific.
- CAN-2005-0108
Leon Juranic discovered an integer underflow in the mod_auth_radius module for Apache which is also present in libpam-radius-auth.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.14-1.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.16-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your libpam-radius-auth package.
- CAN-2004-1340
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-radius-auth/libpam-radius-auth_1.3.14-1.3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.