5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Hiroya Ito of GMO Pepabo, Inc. reported that checkpw, a password
authentication program, has a flaw in processing account names which
contain double dashes. A remote attacker can use this flaw to cause a
denial of service (infinite loop).
Thanks to Markus Koschany who prepared the Debian package.