CVE-2012-1502 (GCVE-0-2012-1502)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-16 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Double free vulnerability in the PyPAM_conv in PAMmodule.c in PyPam 0.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a NULL byte in a password string.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/48746 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1395-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.osvdb.org/79892 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://www.lsexperts.de/advisories/lse-2012-03-01.txt | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-09 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2430 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48332 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2012-03-10 00:00
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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