CVE-2001-1147 (GCVE-0-2001-1147)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2002-06-25 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 04:44
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The PAM implementation in /bin/login of the util-linux package before 2.11 causes a password entry to be rewritten across multiple PAM calls, which could provide the credentials of one user to a different user, when used in certain PAM modules such as pam_limits.
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