The System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.11.6 does not properly identify group membership when a non-POSIX group is in a group membership chain, which allows local users to bypass access restrictions via unspecified vectors.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-0249 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue affects the version of sssd package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.
| Base Score | 2.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (sssd) | RHBA-2014:1375 | 2014-10-13 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (sssd) | RHBA-2015:0441 | 2015-03-05 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | sssd | Fix deferred |
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