Bug 1618255 (CVE-2006-7108)

Summary:	CVE-2006-7108 security flaw
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Stephen Herr <sherr>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 12:48:07 UTC

Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.

Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:53:09 UTC

MITRE description:

login in util-linux-2.12a skips pam_acct_mgmt and chauth_tok when authentication is skipped, such as when a Kerberos krlogin session has been established, which might allow users to bypass intended access policies that would be enforced by pam_acct_mgmt and chauth_tok.

Comment 2 Stephen Herr 2019-06-13 19:31:28 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

This flaw has been rated as having a low  severity by the Red Hat Security Response Team.  More information about this rating can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

This flaw is currently being tracked via the following bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231449
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231448

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3 which are in maintenance mode.