CVE-2003-0101 Information

Description

miniserv.pl in (1) Webmin before 1.070 and (2) Usermin before 1.000 does not properly handle metacharacters such as line feeds and carriage returns (CRLF) in Base-64 encoded strings during Basic authentication which allows remote attackers to spoof a session ID and gain root privileges.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20030602-01-I http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/hp/2003-q1/0063.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/engarde/2003-q1/0008.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610245624895&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610300325629&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104610336226274&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=webmin-announce&m=104587858408101&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/8115 http://secunia.com/advisories/8163 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-058.shtml http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-319 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11390.php http://www.lac.co.jp/security/english/snsadv_e/62_e.html http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/gentoo_advisory-2886.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:025 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6915 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1006160