CVE-2001-1459 (GCVE-0-2001-1459)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-04-21 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 04:58
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
OpenSSH 2.9 and earlier does not initiate a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) session if commands are executed with no pty, which allows local users to bypass resource limits (rlimits) set in pam.d.
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