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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-22365: Vulnerability in Linux-pam

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-22365: Vulnerability in Linux-pam

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/06/2024
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
06/11/2024

Description

linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-linux-pam

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