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2010 Jun 09
0
issues with pam_winbind and ability to use old windows password
...rom an issue whereby after changing a password, a user can login with both their old and their new password.
Having done a bit of investigation, it appears that this is a 'feature' from Microsoft as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906305/en-us and http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/archive/2007/12/11/microsoft-ntlm-authentication-behavior-allows-using-of-old-passwords.aspx
The systems that currently use pam_winbind are a combination of RHEL 4/5 and SLES 10/11 servers with the samba packages that are released with the distro.
If anyone is aware of a way to address the issue...
2004 Dec 11
2
Security exploit downloaded with FLAC?
...t makes sense or not. Since people make the
same mistakes over-and-over, exploits for very different systems start to
look very much like each other. Most exploits can be classified under major
categories: buffer overflow, directory climbing, defaults, Denial of
Service.
(see http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=12665 for the
entire document about this)
Can someone here explain what's going on? I do no e-mailing on that
particular PC, and have it set to block all pop-ups.
--Helen