CVE-2014-4040 (GCVE-0-2014-4040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-06-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:04
VLAI
Summary
snap in powerpc-utils 1.2.20 produces an archive with fstab and yaboot.conf files potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing this archive to detect included passwords, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a technical-support data stream.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/17/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0384.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2014-06-17 00:00
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