19575 : Webmin/Usermin miniserv.pl Metacharacter PAM Authentication Bypass
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Disclosure

Sep 20, 2005

Discovery

Sep 04, 2005

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Keywords

SNS Advisory No.83

Description

(Description Provided by CVE) : miniserv.pl in Webmin before 1.230 and Usermin before 1.160, when "full PAM conversations" is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by spoofing session IDs via certain metacharacters (line feed or carriage return).

Classification

Unknown or Incomplete

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.160 of Usermin, 1.230 of Webmin or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

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References

Security Tracker: 1014950 1014951
Secunia Advisory ID: 16858 16940 17282
CVE ID: 2005-3042 (see also: NVD)
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-09/0257.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Oct/0007.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-17.xml
Vendor URL: http://www.webmin.com/
Keyword: SNS Advisory No.83

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