Denial Of Service (DoS)

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. The checkacl function in pamxauth.c in the pamxauth module in Linux-PAM does not verify that a certain ACL file is a regular file, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service resource consumption via a...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM is vulnerable to remote code execution RCE. It was discovered that the pamxauth module did not verify the return values of the setuid and setgid system calls. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to execute the xauth command with root privileges and...

Privilege Escalation

Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. A flaw was found in the way pamconsole set console device permissions. It was possible for various console devices to retain ownership of the console user after logging out, possibly leaking information to another local...

CentOS 7 : keycloak-httpd-client-install (CESA-2019:2137)

An update for keycloak-httpd-client-install is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) affects IBM Security Network Protection (CVE-2015-3238)

Summary Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM provide a system whereby administrators can set up authentication policies without having to recompile programs to handle authentication. A security vulnerability has been discovered in PAM used with IBM Security Network Protection. Vulnerability Detai...

CVE-2018-1419

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 and 9.0, when configured to use a PAM module for authentication, could allow a user to cause a deadlock in the IBM MQ PAM code which could result in a denial of service. IBM X-Force ID: 138949...

CentOS 7 : sssd (CESA-2017:3379)

An update for sssd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the C...

PYSEC-2017-33

Salt before 2015.5.10 and 2015.8.x before 2015.8.8, when PAM external authentication is enabled, allows attackers to bypass the configured authentication service by passing an alternate service with a command sent to LocalClient...

openssh: Privilege separation weakness related to PAM support

A flaw was found in the way OpenSSH handled PAM authentication when using privilege separation. An attacker with valid credentials on the system and able to fully compromise a non-privileged pre-authentication process using a different flaw could use this flaw to authenticate as other users...

USN-2935-3: PAM regression

USN-2935-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. The updates contained a packaging change that prevented upgrades in certain multiarch environments. USN-2935-2 intended to fix the problem but was incomplete for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This update fixes the problem in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. We apologize for the...

USN-2935-2 pam regression

USN-2935-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. The updates contained a packaging change that prevented upgrades in certain multiarch environments. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the PAM pamuserdb module incorrectly us...

openssh: Privilege separation weakness related to PAM support

A flaw was found in the way OpenSSH handled PAM authentication when using privilege separation. An attacker with valid credentials on the system and able to fully compromise a non-privileged pre-authentication process using a different flaw could use this flaw to authenticate as other users...

RedHat Update for pam RHSA-2015:1640-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

RHEL 6 / 7 : pam (RHSA-2015:1640)

An updated pam package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availabl...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: pam security update

An updated pam package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is availabl...

OpenSSH PAM Support Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

OpenSSH OpenBSD Secure Shell is a set of connection tools for secure access to remote computers maintained by the OpenBSD Project Group. The tools are an open source implementation of the SSH protocol and support encryption of all transmissions, effectively blocking eavesdropping, connection...

PT-2015-3449 · Openssh +5 · Openssh +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: OpenSSH versions prior to 7.0 Description: The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the mm answer pam free ctx function in monitor.c in sshd. This vulnerability might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging control...

Linux-PAM '_unix_run_helper_binary()' function denial of service vulnerability

Linux-PAM also known as PAM is an authentication mechanism for use in the Linux platform that gives system administrators the freedom to choose the authentication mechanism used by an application by providing a number of dynamically linked libraries and a set of unified APIs. A denial-of-service...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pam-1.1.8-19.fc22

PAM Pluggable Authentication Modules is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication...

Vulnerabilities of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system that allow malicious actors to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the pam-1.1.1 package of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited locally...