Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1177-1 usermin -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 15 Sep 2006
- Affected Packages:
- usermin
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 374609.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4246. - More information:
-
Hendrik Weimer discovered that it is possible for a normal user to disable the login shell of the root account via usermin, a web-based administration tool.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.110-3.1.
In the upstream distribution this problem is fixed in version 1.220.
We recommend that you upgrade your usermin package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110-3.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110-3.1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110-3.1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-at_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-changepass_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-chfn_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-commands_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-cron_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-cshrc_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-fetchmail_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-forward_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-gnupg_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-htaccess_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-htpasswd_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-mailbox_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-man_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-mysql_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-plan_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-postgresql_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-proc_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-procmail_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-quota_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-schedule_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-shell_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-spamassassin_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-ssh_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-tunnel_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-updown_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-usermount_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110-3.1_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-changepass_1.110-3.1_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.