Re: vulnerability in su/PAM in redhat

From: Javi Polo (javipoloat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 11 1999 - 05:38:02 PDT

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    On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Tani Hosokawa wrote:
    
    > with redhat has a slight hole. When you try to su to root (for example) if
    > it's successful, immediately gives you a shell prompt.  Otherwise, it
    > delays a full second, then logs an authentication failure to syslog.  If
    > you hit break in that second, no error, plus you know that the password
    > was bad, so you can brute force root's password.  I wrote a little
    
    Checked ....
    Confirmed for su that comes with
    sh-utils-1.16-14
    and using
    pam-0.64-3
    
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