CVE-2013-2069 Information

Description

Red Hat livecd-tools before 13.4.4 17.x before 17.17 18.x before 18.16 and 19.x before 19.3 when a rootpw directive is not set in a Kickstart file sets the root user password to empty which allows local users to gain privileges.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0849.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/23/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60119 https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/red-hat-and-other-third-party-public-amis-security-concern/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=964299 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/84488