CVE-2012-2664

The sosreport utility in the Red Hat sos package before 2.2-29 does not remove the root user password information from the Kickstart configuration file (/root/anaconda-ks.cfg) when creating an archive of debugging information, which might allow attackers to obtain passwords or password hashes.

🔗 References (10)

• secalert@redhathttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html
• secalert@redhathttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116
• secalert@redhathttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0958.html
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1121.html
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54116
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/76468