Bug 461464 (CVE-2008-3970) - CVE-2008-3970 pam_mount: missing luserconf security checks
Summary: CVE-2008-3970 pam_mount: missing luserconf security checks
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-3970
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-08 09:50 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2008-10-01 18:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-10-01 18:20:50 UTC
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-09-08 09:50:26 UTC
pam_mount upstream released new version 0.47 that re-adds luserconf option security checks, that got dropped during the code rewrite in version 0.10.  This allowed users to mount arbitrary sources onto arbitrary directories; normally, they can only do so when they own the mountpoint, and own the source, or the source is a non-local mount.

References:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=624240
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=863797
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/06/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/06/3

Upstream patch:
http://dev.medozas.de/gitweb.cgi?p=pam_mount;a=commitdiff;h=33b91d7659ae3aa78b1e94fd3f8e545ae5ff25db

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-09-09 11:19:00 UTC
Announcement mails sent to pam-mount-user list:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=alpine.LNX.1.10.0809042353120.17569%40fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:16:28 UTC
libHX-1.23-1.fc8, pam_mount-0.47-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:16:57 UTC
libHX-1.23-1.fc9, pam_mount-0.47-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Red Hat Product Security 2008-10-01 18:20:50 UTC
This issue was addressed in:

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-7973
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-7976


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