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<td><font size="2"><b>Solaris 9 Patches <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112908&rev=12">112908-12</a> and <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115168&rev=03">115168-03</a> WITHDRAWN, May Cause Passwords to be Logged as Clear Text on Kerberos Clients</b></font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><b>17 Jun 2004</b></font></td>
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<font size="2"><h2>
        Sun(sm) Alert Notification
      </h2><ul>
        <li>
          Sun Alert ID: 57587
        </li>
        <li>
          Synopsis: Solaris 9 Patches <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112908&rev=12">112908-12</a> and <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115168&rev=03">115168-03</a> WITHDRAWN, May Cause Passwords to be Logged as Clear Text on Kerberos Clients
        </li>
        <li>
          Category: Security
        </li>
        <li>
          Product: Solaris
        </li>
        <li>
          BugIDs: 5004688
        </li>
        <li>
          Avoidance: Patch, Workaround
        </li>
        <li>
          State: Resolved
        </li>
        <li>
          Date Released: 17-Jun-2004
        </li>
        <li>
          Date Closed: 17-Jun-2004
        </li>
        <li>
          Date Modified:
        </li>
      </ul><h2>
        1. Impact
      </h2><p>
        This issue can occur on a Solaris system configured as a kerberos client with patch <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112908&rev=12">112908-12</a> or <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115168&rev=03">115168-03</a>
installed and any service using pam_krb5 as an "auth" module. With the
debug feature of pam_krb5 enabled, password authentication for the user
will be logged in clear text at LOG_DEBUG level. </p><p>
        Patches <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112908&rev=12">112908-12</a> and <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115168&rev=03">115168-03</a> have been WITHDRAWN and are no longer available on SunSolve.
      </p><h2>
        2. Contributing Factors
      </h2><p>
        This issue can occur in the following releases:
      </p><p>
        <b>SPARC Platform</b>
      </p><ul>
        <li>
          Solaris 9 with patch <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112908&rev=12">112908-12</a> and without patch <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112908&rev=13">112908-13</a>
        </li>
      </ul><p>
        <b>x86 Platform</b>
      </p><ul>
        <li>
          Solaris 9 with patch <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115168&rev=03">115168-03</a> and without patch <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115168&rev=04">115168-04</a>
        </li>
      </ul><p>
        <b>Note:</b> Solaris 7 and 8 are not affected by this issue.
      </p><p>
        This issue will only occur if ALL of the following are true:
      </p><p>
        A) The system is configured as a kerberos client, which can be determined by either output from the following command:
      </p><pre>    $ <b>/usr/bin/klist</b>
    klist: No credentials cache file found while setting cache flags
    (ticket cache /tmp/krb5cc_xxxx)            </pre><pre>    $ <b>/usr/bin/klist</b>
    Ticket cache: /tmp/krb5cc_xxxx
    Default principal: jon.doe@FOO.BAR
    ...            </pre><p>
        <b>Note:</b> In the output "Ticket cache: /tmp/krb5cc_xxxx", xxxx is the uid of the user running klist(1).
      </p><p>
B) A service is using pam_krb5 as an "auth" module and the debug feature
of pam_krb5 is enabled, which can be determined by any matching lines
returned from the following command: </p><pre>    $ <b>egrep -e '[\\t ]*[^#].*pam_krb5.*debug' /etc/pam.conf </b>                  </pre><p>
C) Logging of LOG_DEBUG level messages is enabled, which can be
determined by any matching lines returned from the following command:  </p><pre>    $ <b>egrep -e '\*.debug|daemon.debug' /etc/syslog.conf</b>                  </pre><h2>
        3. Symptoms
      </h2><p>
        Messages are logged at LOG_DEBUG level in the following format:
      </p><pre>    Feb 21 14:56:11 raptor dtlogin[14263]: [ID 151277 user.debug] PAM-KRB5(auth): 
    user ams8, pass xxxxx                  </pre></font><table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr bgcolor="#999999">
<td><font size="2" color="#ffffff"><b><a name="Solution-Summary">Solution Summary</a></b></font></td>
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        4. Relief/Workaround
      </h2><p>
        To work around the described issue, do one of the following:
      </p><p>
        A) Back out patch <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112908&rev=12">112908-12</a> (SPARC platform) or <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115168&rev=03">115168-03</a> (x86 platform)
      </p><p>
        OR
      </p><p>
B) Disable the debug feature of pam_krb5. Search for any matching lines
using the following command, and remove the "debug" entry from that
line in the "/etc/pam.conf" (see pam.conf(4)) file: </p><pre>    $ <b>egrep -e '[\\t ]*[^#].*pam_krb5.*debug' /etc/pam.conf</b>                  </pre><p>
        OR
      </p><p>
        C) Disable logging of LOG_DEBUG level messages, which can be achieved by the following steps:
      </p><p>
1. Remove or comment out entries in the "etc/syslog.conf" (see
syslog.conf(4)) file that match output from the following command:     </p><pre>    $ <b>egrep -e '\*.debug|daemon.debug' /etc/syslog.conf</b>            </pre><p>
        2. Send a SIGHUP to syslogd:
      </p><pre>    $ <b>pkill -HUP syslog</b>
            </pre><h2>
        5. Resolution
      </h2><p>
        This issue is addressed in the following releases:
      </p><p>
        <b>SPARC Platform</b>
      </p><ul>
        <li>
          Solaris 9 with patch <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=112908&rev=13">112908-13</a> or later
        </li>
      </ul><p>
        <b>x86 Platform</b>
      </p><ul>
        <li>
          Solaris 9 with patch <a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115168&rev=04">115168-04</a> or later
        </li>
      </ul><p>
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