Description
The Replace function in the capp-lspp-config script in the (1) lspp-eal4-config-ibm and (2) capp-lspp-eal4-config-hp packages before 0.65-2 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 uses lstat instead of stat to determine the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file permissions, leading to a change to world-writable permissions for the /etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.
References
- RHSA-2008:0193 vendor-advisory
- 1019740 vdb-entry
- 28557 vdb-entry
- 29642 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435442
- redhat-lsppeal4config-insecure-permissions(41584) vdb-entry