CVE-2026-44710 pam_usb: NULL pointer dereference from UDisks device fields causes PAM crash and login denial-of-service

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/device.c passed the return values of udisksdrivegetserial, udisksdrivegetvendor, and udisksdrivegetmodel directly to strcmp without NULL checks. The GIO/UDisks API documentation states these...

CVE-2026-44710 pam_usb: NULL pointer dereference from UDisks device fields causes PAM crash and login denial-of-service

pamusb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/device.c passed the return values of udisksdrivegetserial, udisksdrivegetvendor, and udisksdrivegetmodel directly to strcmp without NULL checks. The GIO/UDisks API documentation states these...