Ubuntu 8.10 : system-tools-backends regression (USN-663-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38095

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that passwords changed (or new users created) via the 'Users and Groups' tool were created with 3DES hashing. This reduced the security of stored user passwords, and was a regression from the correct MD5 hashing. This update fixes the problem; future password changes will correct the hashing used. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected system-tools-backends and / or system-tools-backends-dev packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/663-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38095

File Name: ubuntu_USN-663-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:system-tools-backends, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:system-tools-backends-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6792

CWE: 310

USN: 663-1