USN-2935-1 pam vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the PAM pamuserdb module incorrectly used a case-insensitive method when comparing hashed passwords. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to make brute force attacks easier. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2013-7041 Sebastian...

CVE-2013-7041

The pamuserdb module for Pam uses a case-insensitive method to compare hashed passwords, which makes it easier for attackers to guess the password via a brute force attack...