Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1177-1 usermin -- programming error

Date Reported:
15 Sep 2006
Affected Packages:
usermin
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 374609.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4246.
More information:

Hendrik Weimer discovered that it is possible for a normal user to disable the login shell of the root account via usermin, a web-based administration tool.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.110-3.1.

In the upstream distribution this problem is fixed in version 1.220.

We recommend that you upgrade your usermin package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110-3.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110-3.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-at_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-changepass_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-chfn_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-commands_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-cron_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-cshrc_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-fetchmail_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-forward_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-gnupg_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-htaccess_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-htpasswd_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-mailbox_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-man_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-mysql_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-plan_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-postgresql_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-proc_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-procmail_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-quota_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-schedule_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-shell_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-spamassassin_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-ssh_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-tunnel_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-updown_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin-usermount_1.110-3.1_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/u/usermin/usermin_1.110-3.1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.