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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:24:42 -0700
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: samba pam_winbind authentication fails open
Just cutting-and-pasting from the bug I just filed. The following was
reported to us, but had been reported upstream last year.
It was reported [1] that Samba's pam_winbind module would fail open (allowing
access) when the require_membership_of option is used as an argument to
pam_winbind, and contains a non-existent group as the value. In such a
configuration, rather then failing and not permitting authentication which is
what would be expected, pam_winbind will allow authentication to proceed.
For instance, if the following is specified and the user is not a member of the
group 'Admin', they will not obtain access to the system:
auth sufficient pam_winbind.so use_first_pass require_membership_of=Admin
On the other hand, if the non-existent group 'AdminOops' is specified, the user
is obviously not a member of said group, authentication will be permitted:
auth sufficient pam_winbind.so use_first_pass require_membership_of=AdminOops
The commit [2] that most likely introduced this flaw indicates that this was
introduced October 2009 and another commit [3] looks like the fix, although
that is for another bug [4] that's somewhat related to this issue and somewhat
not.
[1] https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2012-June/084593.html
[2] http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=31f1a36901b5b8959dc51401c09c114829b50392
[3] http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=f62683956a3b182f6a61cc7a2b4ada2e74cde243
[4] https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8598
Could a CVE be assigned to this issue?
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Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team
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