CVE-2013-4577

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Grub
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 May 2014

Summary

A certain Debian patch for GNU GRUB uses world-readable permissions for grub.cfg, which allows local users to obtain password hashes, as demonstrated by reading the password_pbkdf2 directive in the file.

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632598
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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/291
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http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/292
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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