4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
The check_acl function in pam_xauth.c in the pam_xauth module in Linux-PAM
(aka pam) 1.1.2 and earlier does not verify that a certain ACL file is a
regular file, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service
(resource consumption) via a special file.
Author | Note |
---|---|
sbeattie | pam_xauth not enabled in the default install |
mdeslaur | see complete patch list in CVE-2010-3435 |