CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The _expand_arg function in the pam_env module (modules/pam_env/pam_env.c)
in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.5 does not properly handle when
environment variable expansion can overflow, which allows local users to
cause a denial of service (CPU consumption).