Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-184 - 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.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:184
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : setup
Date : March 30, 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.
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References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0116.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
2a2f789705e9b8c97d5623958c2f5f04 mbs2/x86_64/setup-2.7.20-10.1.mbs2.noarch.rpm
ddde4c6e2740f104c72d51089bda7091 mbs2/SRPMS/setup-2.7.20-10.1.mbs2.src.rpm
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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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