CVE-2026-47271

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, src/mem.c implemented out-of-memory guards for xmalloc, xrealloc, and xstrdup using assertdata != NULL. The C standard specifies that all assert expressions are compiled out when NDEBUG is defined at...

CVE-2026-47271 pam_usb: OOM guards removed by -DNDEBUG cause NULL dereference and authentication process crash

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, src/mem.c implemented out-of-memory guards for xmalloc, xrealloc, and xstrdup using assertdata != NULL. The C standard specifies that all assert expressions are compiled out when NDEBUG is defined at...

CVE-2026-47271

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, src/mem.c implemented out-of-memory guards for xmalloc, xrealloc, and xstrdup using assertdata != NULL. The C standard specifies that all assert expressions are compiled out when NDEBUG is defined at...

CVE-2026-47271

The CVE affects pam_usb prior to version 0.9.0, where out-of-memory guards in src/mem.c (xmalloc/xrealloc/xstrdup) were removed when NDEBUG is defined. With no NULL checks after allocation, NULL pointer dereferences occur, causing a crash in the PAM module loaded by sudo or login and leading to l...

[SECURITY] [DSA 5990-1] libxml2 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5990-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Aron Xu August 29, 2025 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...