GLSA-202012-06 : Linux-PAM: Authentication bypass

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202012-06 Linux-PAM: Authentication bypass A flaw was found in Linux-Pam in the way it handle empty passwords for non-existing users. Impact : A remote attacker, who only needs to know a non-existing username, could bypass securit...

Escalation Of Privilege

xrdp 0.9.1 calls the PAM function authstartsession in an incorrect location, leading to PAM session modules not being properly initialized, with a potential consequence of incorrect configurations or elevation of privileges, aka a pamlimits.so bypass...

SUSE-SU-2020:3613-1 Security update for rpmlint

This update for rpmlint fixes the following issues: - Whitelist PAM modules and DBUS rules for cockpit bsc1169614...

Fedora 33 : pam (2020-22532a1a81)

fix CVE-2020-27780: authentication bypass when the user doesn't exist Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Linux-pam Authorization Issues Vulnerability

Linux-pam is a pluggable-supported system authentication software for Linux from the Linux-pam team. Linux-Pam suffers from an Authorization Problem vulnerability, which can be exploited by an attacker to bypass restrictions and escalate his privileges via the Linux-Pam root null password...

Fedora: Security Advisory for pam (FEDORA-2020-22532a1a81)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

CVE-2020-27780

A flaw was found in Linux-PAM in the way it handles empty passwords for non-existing users. When the user doesn't exist, PAM tries to authenticate with root and with an empty password, authentication is successful. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as we...

Oracle Solaris PAM parse_user_name() buffer overflow (CVE-2020-14871)

Binary data solarissshpamcve-2020-14871.nbin...

In Wild Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Solaris Can Allow Remote Takeover — CVE-2020-14871

FireEye Mandiant has been investigating compromised Oracle Solaris machines in customer environments. During our investigations, we discovered an exploit tool on a customer’s system and analyzed it to see how it was attacking their Solaris environment. The FLARE team’s Offensive Task Force analyz...

Oracle Solaris Zero-Day Attack Revealed

A previously known threat group, called UNC1945, has been compromising telecommunications companies and targeting financial and professional consulting industries, by exploiting a security flaw in Oracle’s Solaris operating system. Researchers said that the group was exploiting the bug when it wa...

USN-4616-1 accountsservice vulnerabilities

Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly dropped privileges. A local user could possibly use this issue to cause AccountsService to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2020-16126 Kevin Backhouse discovered that AccountsService incorrectly handled reading...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-16127

An Ubuntu-specific modification to AccountsService in versions before 0.6.55-0ubuntu13.2, among other earlier versions, would perform unbounded read operations on user-controlled /.pamenvironment files, allowing an infinite loop if /dev/zero is symlinked to this location...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for gnome-keyring (EulerOS-SA-2020-2283)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gnome-keyring (EulerOS-SA-2020-2283)

According to the version of the gnome-keyring packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - In pam/gkr-pam-module.c in GNOME Keyring before 3.27.2, the user's password is kept in a session-child process spawned from the LightDM...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4552-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Pam-python regression (USN-4552-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4552-3 advisory. USN-4552-1 and USN-4552-2 fixed a vulnerability in Pam-python. The update introduced a regression which prevented PAM modules written in Python from...

USN-4552-3: Pam-python regression

USN-4552-1 and USN-4552-2 fixed a vulnerability in Pam-python. The update introduced a regression which prevented PAM modules written in Python from importing python modules from site-specific directories. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Malte Kraus discovered that...

USN-4552-3 pam-python regression

USN-4552-1 and USN-4552-2 fixed a vulnerability in Pam-python. The update introduced a regression which prevented PAM modules written in Python from importing python modules from site-specific directories. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Malte Kraus discovered that...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4552-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

CVE-2020-27678

An issue was discovered in illumos before 2020-10-22, as used in OmniOS before r151030by, r151032ay, and r151034y and SmartOS before 20201022. There is a buffer overflow in parseusername in lib/libpam/pamframework.c...