Title: Multiple Vendor Linux NIS Vulnerabilities
Severity: LOW
Description:
ypserv releases previous to 1.3.9 contain two different vulnerabilties: Any NIS domain administrator can inject password tables, and users can modify the GECOS field and login shell values for other users. Also, rpc.yppasswd prior 1.3.6.92 has a standard buffer overflow problem in the md5 hash generation code.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 2.0.0
- Debian Linux 2.1.0
- Debian Linux 2.2.0
- Linux kernel 2.0.0
- Linux kernel 2.1.0
- Linux kernel 2.2.0
- Linux kernel 2.3.0
- RedHat Linux 4.0.0
- RedHat Linux 5.0.0
- RedHat Linux 6.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0.0
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