[Fedora-livecd-list] CVE-2013-2069 livecd-tools: improper handling of passwords
Brian C. Lane
bcl at redhat.com
Thu May 23 14:12:18 UTC 2013
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964299
The livecd-tools package provides support for reading and executing
Kickstart files in order to create a system image. It was discovered
that livecd-tools gave the root user an empty password rather than
leaving the password locked in situations where no 'rootpw' directive
was used or when the 'rootpw --lock' directive was used within the
Kickstart file, which could allow local users to gain access to the
root account. (CVE-2013-2069)
Please note that livecd-tools is also used by appliance-tools to create
images used for virtual machines, USB based systems, and so on.
Additionally, the Python script components of livecd-tools have been
broken out into a separate package named python-imgcreate on some
distributions (such as Fedora).
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank Amazon Web Services for reporting this
issue.
Amazon Web Services acknowledges Sylvain Beucler as the original
reporter.
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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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