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TITLE:
Red Hat update for tog-pegasus

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32862

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32862/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Brute force

WHERE:
>From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13652/
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/13653/

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for tog-pegasus. This fixes a security
issues and a weakness, which can be exploited by people to conduct
brute force attacks and malicious users to bypass certain security
restrictions.
 
1) The security issue is caused due to Red Hat's security
enhancements not being applied after re-basing the package to version
2.7.0, which can be exploited to e.g. send requests to the WBEM
services.

Successful exploitation requires a valid user account.

2) The weakness is caused due to the application not logging failed
authentications to the system log, which can be exploited to e.g.
conduct brute force attacks to guess a user's password.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2008-1001:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-1001.html

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