CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-4040
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-06-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
snap in powerpc-utils 1.2.20 produces an archive with fstab and yaboot.conf files potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.
Affected configurations
• powerpc-utils project powerpc-utils 1.2.20
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1 openwall.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0384.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1 openwall.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0384.html rhn.redhat.com