CVE-2014-2583

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pam_timestamp.c in the
pam_timestamp module for Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.8 allow local users to
create arbitrary files or possibly bypass authentication via a … (dot dot)
in the (1) PAM_RUSER value to the get_ruser function or (2) PAM_TTY value
to the check_tty function, which is used by the format_timestamp_name
function.

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