yum-rhn-plugin in Red Hat Network Client Tools (aka rhn-client-tools) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora uses world-readable permissions for the /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl file, which allows local users to access the Red Hat Network profile, and possibly prevent future security updates, by leveraging authentication data from this file.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-1467 yum-rhn-plugin in Red Hat Network Client Tools (aka rhn-client-tools) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora uses world-readable permissions for the /var/spool/up2date/loginAuth.pkl file, which allows local users to access the Red Hat Network profile, and possibly prevent future security updates, by leveraging authentication data from this file.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T01:21:19.158Z

Reserved: 2010-04-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-1439

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-06-07T17:12:48.077

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-1439

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-1439 - Bugzilla

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