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FKIE_CVE-2014-3925

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-06-01 04:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:09
Severity
Summary
sosreport in Red Hat sos 1.7 and earlier on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 produces an archive with an fstab file potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/6
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/30/3
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102633Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/29/6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/30/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1102633Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 15.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 15.10
redhat sos *
redhat enterprise_linux 5
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