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HistoryJul 22, 2012 - 5:00 p.m.

CVE-2011-3149

2012-07-2217:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org

5.7 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

The _expand_arg function in the pam_env module (modules/pam_env/pam_env.c) in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.5 does not properly handle when environment variable expansion can overflow, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption).