Debian Security Advisory

DSA-370-1 pam-pgsql -- format string

Date Reported:

08 Aug 2003

Affected Packages:

pam-pgsql

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CAN-2003-0672.

More information:

Florian Zumbiehl reported a vulnerability in pam-pgsql whereby the username to be used for authentication is used as a format string when writing a log message. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the program requesting PAM authentication.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.2-3woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.2-7.

We recommend that you update your pam-pgsql package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/pam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/pam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/pam-pgsql_0.5.2.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pam-pgsql/libpam-pgsql_0.5.2-3woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.