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Cent OS: CVE-2012-2664: CESA-2013:1121 (sos)

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Cent OS: CVE-2012-2664: CESA-2013:1121 (sos)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/29/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-sos

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