[Fingerforce-devel] Bug#1072854: fprintd: CVE-2024-37408

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: fprintd
Version: 1.94.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for fprintd.

CVE-2024-37408[0]:
| fprintd through 1.94.3 lacks a security attention mechanism, and
| thus unexpected actions might be authorized by "auth sufficient
| pam_fprintd.so" for Sudo.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-37408
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37408
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/3
[2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fprint/2024-May/001231.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore