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Bug 114742

Summary: CAN-2004-0080 "login" information leak
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-02-02 10:37:22 UTC 
Reported to security an issue in the login program.  In
some situations, the login program could use a pointer that had been
freed and reallocated. This could cause unintentional data leakage. 
This could cause things like passwords getting written to wtmp under
certain conditions (a certain sequence of incorrect logins are
performed with certain length passwords etc).

Note: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are not
vulnerable to this issue.

Updated packages will be available under advisory RHSA-2004:056
Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-02-03 08:22:25 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-056.html