CVE-2026-47270

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, pamusb is a PAM module loaded into the host process sudo, login, GDM, GNOME Shell. Display managers such as GDM run multiple concurrent authentication threads. Three functions used by the denyremote...

CVE-2026-47270

CVE-2026-47270 affects the pam_usb PAM module used for Linux hardware authentication. The denial logic (deny_remote) uses non-reentrant strtok(), with three functions sharing a global token pointer; in multi-threaded authentication (e.g., long-lived display managers like GDM), two concurrent auth...

CVE-2026-47270 pam_usb: strtok() race condition in multi-threaded PAM hosts can corrupt deny_remote result

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.9.0, pamusb is a PAM module loaded into the host process sudo, login, GDM, GNOME Shell. Display managers such as GDM run multiple concurrent authentication threads. Three functions used by the denyremote...