Secunia Security Advisory - A weakness has been reported in util-linux-ng, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate certain data.
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TITLE:
util-linux-ng "login" Audit Log Injection Weakness
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30014
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30014/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
util-linux-ng 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/18517/
DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in util-linux-ng, which can be exploited
by malicious people to manipulate certain data.
The security issue is caused due to an error in login.c while logging
login attempts. This can be exploited to inject e.g. an arbitrary
address in the audit logs via a specially crafted username.
The weakness is reported in versions prior to 2.13.1.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.13.1.1.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13.1.1-ChangeLog
http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commit;h=8ccf0b253ac0f4f58d64bc9674de18bff5a88782
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