Bugzilla – Bug 908424
VUL-1: CVE-2014-9278: openssh: ~/.k5users unexpectedly grants remote login
Last modified: 2015-02-12 14:51:24 UTC
Via rh#1169843: IssueDescription: In a Kerberos environment, OpenSSH allows remote, authenticated users to log in as another user if they are listed in a ~/.k5users file of that other user. This unexpectedly alters the system security policy, as expressed through the ~/.k5users file, because previously, users would have to log in locally, potentially requiring different forms of authentication, before they could use the ksu command to switch users. Proposed fix: Change the magic file name to ~/.ssh/k5users. This needs careful review to make sure that the file is opened as the correct user, to avoid attacks by moving around ~/.ssh, leading to arbitrary file reads. References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169843 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1867 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.general/15855
bugbot adjusting priority
looks like we don't have the patch that uses ~/.k5users