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USN17-1 : passwd vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary passwd vulnerabilities Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : These remote packages are missing security patches : - login - passwd Description : Martin Schulze and Steve Grubb discovered a flaw in the authentication input validation of the "chfn" and "chsh" programs. This permited logged in users with an expired password to change their real name and their login shell without having to change their password. This flaw cannot lead to privilege escalation and does not permit to modify account properties of other users, so the impact is relatively low. Solution : Upgrade to : - login-4.0.3-28.5ubuntu6.1 (Ubuntu 4.10) - passwd-4.0.3-28.5ubuntu6.1 (Ubuntu 4.10) Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2005 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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