ID CVE-2005-2977
Summary The SELinux version of PAM before 0.78 r3 allows local users to perform brute force password guessing attacks via unix_chkpwd, which does not log failed guesses or delay its responses.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:pam:pam:*:*:selinux:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:pam:pam:*:*:selinux:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 2.1 (as of 11-10-2017 - 01:30)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
LOCAL LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
PARTIAL NONE NONE
cvss-vector via4 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
oval via4
accepted 2013-04-29T04:03:14.334-04:00
class vulnerability
contributors
  • name Aharon Chernin
    organization SCAP.com, LLC
  • name Dragos Prisaca
    organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions
  • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831
  • comment CentOS Linux 4.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636
  • comment Oracle Linux 4.x
    oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990
description The SELinux version of PAM before 0.78 r3 allows local users to perform brute force password guessing attacks via unix_chkpwd, which does not log failed guesses or delay its responses.
family unix
id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10193
status accepted
submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
title The SELinux version of PAM before 0.78 r3 allows local users to perform brute force password guessing attacks via unix_chkpwd, which does not log failed guesses or delay its responses.
version 29
redhat via4
advisories
rhsa
id RHSA-2005:805
rpms
  • pam-0:0.77-66.13
  • pam-debuginfo-0:0.77-66.13
  • pam-devel-0:0.77-66.13
refmap via4
bid 15217
confirm http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/NEWS?rev=1.6&view=markup
gentoo GLSA-200510-22
misc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168181
sectrack 1015111
secunia
  • 17346
  • 17350
  • 17352
  • 17365
vupen ADV-2005-2227
Last major update 11-10-2017 - 01:30
Published 01-11-2005 - 12:47
Last modified 11-10-2017 - 01:30
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