CVE-2010-4707

The checkacl function in pamxauth.c in the pamxauth module in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 and earlier 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 special file...

pam: pam_xauth: Does not check if certain ACL file is a regular file

The checkacl function in pamxauth.c in the pamxauth module in Linux-PAM aka pam 1.1.2 and earlier 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 special file...