Bug 472524 (CVE-2008-5188)

Summary:	CVE-2008-5188 ecryptfs-utils: potential provided password disclosure in the process table
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	mhlavink
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2008-11-21 14:33:39 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-5188 to
the following vulnerability:

The (1) ecryptfs-setup-private, (2) ecryptfs-setup-confidential, and
(3) ecryptfs-setup-pam-wrapped.sh scripts in ecryptfs-utils 45 through
61 in eCryptfs place cleartext passwords on command lines, which
allows local users to obtain sensitive information by listing the
process.

References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5188
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/23/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/29/7
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mhalcrow/ecryptfs-utils.git;a=commit;h=06de99afd53f03fe07eda0ad9d61ac6d5d4d9f53
https://launchpad.net/bugs/287908

Note: The ecryptfs-utils as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux does not
contain the 'ecryptfs-setup-private' script mentioned in the above CVE entry
(present in ecryptfs-utils starting from versions -45+), but it contains 'ecryptfs-add-passphrase.c' and 'ecryptfs-wrap-passphrase.c'
files affected by this vulnerability.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-11-21 14:39:48 UTC

This issue affects the version of the ecryptfs-utils package as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue affects the versions of the ecryptfs-utils package as shipped
with Fedora releases of 9 and 10.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2008-11-21 14:40:48 UTC

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future update may address this flaw.  More information regarding
issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:56:27 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1307 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1307.html

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2009-09-02 10:28:19 UTC

All current Fedora versions are already updated to fixed upstream versions too.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 12:10:49 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1307 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1307.html