Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-208 - An issue has been identified in Mandriva Business Server 2's setup package where the /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files containing password hashes were created with incorrect permissions, making them world-readable. This update fixes this issue by enforcing that those files are owned by the root user and shadow group, and are only readable by those two entities. Note that this issue only affected new Mandriva Business Server 2 installations. Systems that were updated from previous Mandriva versions were not affected. This update was already issued as MDVSA-2015:184, but the latter was withdrawn as it generated.rpmnew files for critical configuration files, and rpmdrake might propose the user to use those basically empty files, thus leading to loss of passwords or partition table. This new update ensures that such.rpmnew files are not kept after the update.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:208
https://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : setup
Date : April 27, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem Description:
Updated setup package fixes security vulnerability:
An issue has been identified in Mandriva Business Server 2's setup
package where the /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files containing
password hashes were created with incorrect permissions, making them
world-readable (mga#14516).
This update fixes this issue by enforcing that those files are owned
by the root user and shadow group, and are only readable by those
two entities.
Note that this issue only affected new Mandriva Business Server
2 installations. Systems that were updated from previous Mandriva
versions were not affected.
This update was already issued as MDVSA-2015:184, but the latter was
withdrawn as it generated .rpmnew files for critical configuration
files, and rpmdrake might propose the user to use those basically empty
files, thus leading to loss of passwords or partition table. This new
update ensures that such .rpmnew files are not kept after the update.
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References:
https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0162.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
0896d07e3297e4a8cba2d4c14b1de479 mbs2/x86_64/setup-2.7.20-10.2.mbs2.noarch.rpm
314bd5ca00cb98093b930a23070d5d7a mbs2/SRPMS/setup-2.7.20-10.2.mbs2.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:
gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98
You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:
https://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/
If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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