MGASA-2015-0116

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    MGASA-2015-0116

    Published: 27 Mar 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated setup package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: An issue has been identified in Mageia 4's setup package where the /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow files containing password hashes were created with incorrect permissions, making them world-readable (mga#14516). This update fixes this issue by enforcing that those files are owned by the root user and shadow group, and are only readable by those two entities. Note that this issue only affected new Mageia 4 installations. Systems that were updated from previous Mageia versions were not affected. UPDATE: This update has since been removed as it still created rpmnew files and allowed users to unintentionally remove existing users by applying it. A better fix has since been found and will be pushed separately (mga#15644)

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0116.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14516, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15644

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: setup

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/setup?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.20-9.4.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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