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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-3621: Security patch for sssd (ALAS-2021-1715)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-3621: Security patch for sssd (ALAS-2021-1715)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/07/2021
Created
10/08/2021
Added
10/07/2021
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

A flaw was found in SSSD, where the sssctl command was vulnerable to shell command injection via the logs-fetch and cache-expire subcommands. This flaw allows an attacker to trick the root user into running a specially crafted sssctl command, such as via sudo, to gain root access. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libipa_hbac
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libipa_hbac-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_autofs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_certmap
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_certmap-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_idmap
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_idmap-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_nss_idmap
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_nss_idmap-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_simpleifp
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_simpleifp-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libsss_sudo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-libipa_hbac
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-libsss_nss_idmap
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-sss
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-sss-murmur
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-sssdconfig
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-ad
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-client
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-common
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-common-pac
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-dbus
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-ipa
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-kcm
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-krb5
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-krb5-common
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-ldap
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-libwbclient
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-libwbclient-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-polkit-rules
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-proxy
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-tools
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-sssd-winbind-idmap

References

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