CVE-2014-4040

Publication date 17 June 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
powerpc-utils	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.10 utopic	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
ppc64-diag	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.10 utopic	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	13.10 saucy	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

Notes

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snap script is in powerpc-utils (powerpc-ibm-utils binary package), which ppc64diag depends on. code is not present in powerpc-utils 1.1.3.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
powerpc-utils	Upstream: 96f8614