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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12173: Security patch for sssd (ALAS-2017-935)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12173: Security patch for sssd (ALAS-2017-935)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/22/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

It was found that sssd's sysdb_search_user_by_upn_res() function before 1.16.0 did not sanitize requests when querying its local cache and was vulnerable to injection. In a centralized login environment, if a password hash was locally cached for a given user, an authenticated attacker could use this flaw to retrieve it.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-sssd

References

  • ALAS-2017-935
  • CVE-2017-12173
  • USN-3526-1

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