Sun Solaris Smart Card PAM.CONF Lowered Security Settings Vulnerability

BID:13741

Info

Sun Solaris Smart Card PAM.CONF Lowered Security Settings Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13741
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Apr 22 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 22 2003 12:00AM
Credit: This issue was announced by Sun.
Vulnerable: Sun Solaris 8_sparc
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Sun Solaris Smart Card PAM.CONF Lowered Security Settings Vulnerability

Sun Solaris is prone to a vulnerability related to smart cards that could result in lowered security settings.

In particular, entries from 'pam.conf' could be removed when a smart card is enabled.

Sun has described this issue as "4827207 Enabling smart card removes pam entries from pam.conf".

Exploit / POC

Sun Solaris Smart Card PAM.CONF Lowered Security Settings Vulnerability

This condition could occur inadvertently when a smart card is enabled.

Solution / Fix

Sun Solaris Smart Card PAM.CONF Lowered Security Settings Vulnerability

Solution:
Sun has released a patch to address this vulnerability.


Sun Solaris 8_sparc

References

Sun Solaris Smart Card PAM.CONF Lowered Security Settings Vulnerability

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