OracleVM 3.3 : pam (OVMSA-2015-0117)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - fix CVE-2015-3238 - DoS due to blocking pipe with very long password - make pampwhistory and pamunix tolerant of opasswd file corruption - pamuserdb: allow any crypt hash algorithm to be used 1119289 ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenSSH regression (USN-2710-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2710-2 advisory. USN-2710-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. The upstream fix for CVE-2015-5600 caused a regression resulting in random authentication failures in non-default...

CentOS 6 / 7 : pam (CESA-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...

pam: DoS/user enumeration due to blocking pipe in pam_unix module

It was discovered that the unixrunhelperbinary function of PAM's unixpam module could write to a blocking pipe, possibly causing the function to become unresponsive. An attacker able to supply large passwords to the unixpam module could use this flaw to enumerate valid user accounts, or cause a...

pam security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-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,...

USN-2710-2: OpenSSH regression

USN-2710-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. The upstream fix for CVE-2015-5600 caused a regression resulting in random authentication failures in non-default configurations. This update fixes the problem. Original advisory details: Moritz Jodeit discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled...

pam security update

1.1.1-20.1 - fix CVE-2015-3238 - DoS due to blocking pipe with very long password...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : OpenSSH vulnerabilities (USN-2710-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2710-1 advisory. Moritz Jodeit discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled usernames when using PAM authentication. If an additional vulnerability were discovered in the...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2710-1)

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...

USN-2710-1: OpenSSH vulnerabilities

Moritz Jodeit discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled usernames when using PAM authentication. If an additional vulnerability were discovered in the OpenSSH unprivileged child process, this issue could allow a remote attacker to perform user impersonation. CVE number pending Moritz Jodeit...

USN-2710-1 openssh vulnerabilities

Moritz Jodeit discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled usernames when using PAM authentication. If an additional vulnerability were discovered in the OpenSSH unprivileged child process, this issue could allow a remote attacker to perform user impersonation. CVE number pending Moritz Jodeit...

OpenSSH 6.9p1 Authentication Bypass / Use-After-Free Vulnerability

OpenSSH versions 6.9p1 and below suffer from PAM related authentication bypass and use-after-free vulnerabilities. Affected Product: OpenSSH http://www.openssh.com Affected Version: Portable versions = 6.9p1 Vulnerability: Vulnerabilities in PAM Privilege Separation Code I. Impact Two...

OpenSSH 7.0 Fixes Four Flaws

A new version of OpenSSH has been released, fixing four security vulnerabilities and a number of non-security related bugs. OpenSSH 7.0 includes patches for a use-after-free vulnerability and three other flaws, two of which only affect Portable OpenSSH. The maintainers of the software also gave...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: pure-ftpd-1.0.36-7.fc22

Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality, standard-comformant FTP server, based upon Troll-FTPd. Unlike other popular FTP servers, it has no known security flaw, it is really trivial to set up and it is especially designed for modern Linux and FreeBSD kernels setfsuid, sendfile, capabilities...

OpenSSH -- PAM vulnerabilities

OpenSSH 6.8 and 6.9 incorrectly set TTYs to be world-writable. Local attackers may be able to write arbitrary messages to logged-in users, including terminal escape sequences. Reported by Nikolay Edigaryev. Fixed a privilege separation weakness related to PAM support. Attackers who could...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5600

The kbdintnextdevice function in auth2-chall.c in sshd in OpenSSH through 6.9 does not properly restrict the processing of keyboard-interactive devices within a single connection, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct brute-force attacks or cause a denial of service CPU consumptio...

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-15:16.openssh [REVISED]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-15:16.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced: 2015-07-28, revised on...

Updated openssh package fixes security vulnerability

The OpenSSH server, when keyboard-interactive challenge response authentication is enabled and PAM is being used the default configuration in Mageia, can be tricked into allowing more password attempts than the MaxAuthTries setting would normally allow in one connection, which can aid an attacker...

FreeBSD-SA-15:16.openssh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-15:16.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH multiple vulnerabilities Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced: 2015-07-28, revised on...

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

The multiple vulnerabilities in the pam-devel-0.75 package of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system can lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited locally...