Ubuntu 8.10 / 9.04 : pam vulnerability (USN-828-1)

Russell Senior discovered that the system authentication module selection mechanism for PAM did not safely handle an empty selection. If an administrator had specifically removed the default list of modules or failed to chose a module when operating debconf in a very unlikely non-default...

USN-828-1: PAM vulnerability

Russell Senior discovered that the system authentication module selection mechanism for PAM did not safely handle an empty selection. If an administrator had specifically removed the default list of modules or failed to chose a module when operating debconf in a very unlikely non-default...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0579

Linux-PAM before 1.0.4 does not enforce the minimum password age MINDAYS as specified in /etc/shadow, which allows local users to bypass intended security policy and change their passwords sooner than specified...

Debian DSA-177-1 : pam -- serious security violation

A serious security violation in PAM was discovered. Disabled passwords i.e. those with '' in the password file were classified as empty password and access to such accounts is granted through the regular login procedure getty, telnet, ssh. This works for all such accounts whose shell field in the...

CVE-2002-1227

PAM 0.76 treats a disabled password as if it were an empty null password, which allows local and remote attackers to gain privileges as disabled users...

CVE-2003-0786

The SSH1 PAM challenge response authentication in OpenSSH 3.7.1 and 3.7.1p1, when Privilege Separation is disabled, does not check the result of the authentication attempt, which can allow remote attackers to gain privileges...

OpenSSH PAM challenge authentication failure

Overview There is a vulnerability in the challenge authentication code of the Portable OpenSSH server when using the SSHv1 protocol and Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM. This vulnerability could permit a remote attacker to log in to the system as any user, including potentially root, without...

CVE-2003-0388

pamwheel in Linux-PAM 0.78, with the trust option enabled and the useuid option disabled, allows local users to spoof log entries and gain privileges by causing getlogin to return a spoofed user name...

Linux PAM 0.77 - Pam_Wheel Module getlogin() Username Spoofing Privilege Escalation

Linux PAM 0.77 - PamWheel Module getlogin Username Spoofing Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7929/info A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux-Pam pamwheel module. The problem exists in the way the module authenticates users under certain configurations...

Linux PAM 0.77 - Pam_Wheel Module 'getlogin() Username' Spoofing Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7929/info A vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux-Pam pamwheel module. The problem exists in the way the module authenticates users under certain configurations. Specifically, if the module is configured to allow wheel group members to use the 's...

su+pam.redhat.txt

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 14:07:27 -0700 From: Tani Hosokawa To: [email protected] Subject: vulnerability in su/PAM in redhat I was talking to some guy on IRC st2 and he asked me to mention to bugtraq because he's not on the list that the PAMified su that comes with redhat has a slight hole. When...

RedHat Linux 5.2 i3866.0 - No Logging

RedHat Linux 5.2 i3866.0 - No Logging source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/320/info A vulnerability in PAM allows local malicious users to brute force passwords via the su command without any logging of their activity. su is a command that allows users to change identifies by supplying a...

RedHat Linux 5.2 i386/6.0 - No Logging

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/320/info A vulnerability in PAM allows local malicious users to brute force passwords via the su command without any logging of their activity. su is a command that allows users to change identifies by supplying a password. If the password is correct su...

Sun Solaris 2.5.1 PAM unix_scheme - passwd Local Privilege Escalation

Sun Solaris 2.5.1 PAM unixscheme - passwd Local Privilege Escalation / source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/201/info There is a buffer overflow condition on arguments in Pluggable Authentication Modules PAM and unixscheme 5.4 and 5.3. Therefore, an unauthorized user could exploit this...