CVE-2008-1926

Publication date 24 April 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Argument injection vulnerability in login (login-utils/login.c) in util-linux-ng 2.14 and earlier makes it easier for remote attackers to hide activities by modifying portions of log events, as demonstrated by appending an "addr=" statement to the login name, aka "audit log injection."

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
util-linux 8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
7.10 gutsy
Not affected
7.04 feisty Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

this is the CVE-2007-3102 issue from openssh marking not-affected as we don't use login from the util-linux package. It's not compiled.