CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1926
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
Argument injection vulnerability in login (login-utils/login.c) in util-linux-ng 2.14 and earlier makes it easier for remote attackers to hide activities by modifying portions of log events, as demonstrated by appending an "addr=" statement to the login name, aka "audit log injection."
Affected configurations
• linux util-linux 2.13
• linux util-linux 2.13.0.1
• linux util-linux 2.13.1
• linux util-linux 2.13.1.1
• linux util-linux 2.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=login-utils/login.c%3Bh=230121316d953c59e7842c1325f6e9f326a37608%3Bhp=aad27794327c60391b5148b367d2c79338fc6ee4%3Bhb=8ccf0b253ac0f4f58d64bc9674de18bff5a88782%3Bhpb=3a4a13b12a8065b0b5354686d2807cce421a9973 git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8ccf0b253ac0f4f58d64bc9674de18bff5a88782 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29982 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30014 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35161 secunia.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0143 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:114 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0981.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507854/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28983 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022256 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1392/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41987 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9833 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00624.html www.redhat.com
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=login-utils/login.c%3Bh=230121316d953c59e7842c1325f6e9f326a37608%3Bhp=aad27794327c60391b5148b367d2c79338fc6ee4%3Bhb=8ccf0b253ac0f4f58d64bc9674de18bff5a88782%3Bhpb=3a4a13b12a8065b0b5354686d2807cce421a9973 git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8ccf0b253ac0f4f58d64bc9674de18bff5a88782 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29982 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30014 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35161 secunia.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0143 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:114 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0981.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507854/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28983 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022256 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1392/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41987 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9833 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00624.html www.redhat.com