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SUSE-RU-2015:0574-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2014-09-12 14:57 - Updated: 2026-09-20 11:57

Summary

Security update for powerpc-utils

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Title of the patch: Security update for powerpc-utils

Description of the patch: The 'snap' system information collection tool of the PowerPC Utils package collected fstab and yaboot.conf files which might contain passwords. (CVE-2014-4040) As these files are of interest, we now print a warning that the user of the 'snap' tool should check if private passwords are in those files. Security Issues: * CVE-2014-4040 <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4040>

Patchnames: slessp3-powerpc-utils

CVE-2014-4040

Affected products

Recommended 2 products

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3:powerpc-utils-0:1.2.16-0.13.1.ppc64		—	Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3:powerpc-utils-0:1.2.16-0.13.1.ppc64		—	Vendor Fix

Threats

Impact moderate

References

10 references

URL	Category
https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/	external
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/s…	self
https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2015…	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/879310	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/879839	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/883174	self
https://bugzilla.suse.com/901216	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4040/	self
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4040	external
https://bugzilla.suse.com/883174	external

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-06-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:04

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

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 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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SUSE-RU-2015:0574-1

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

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