ELSA-2013-0521 Moderate: Oracle Linux pam security, bug fix, and enhancement update
5
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
07/22/2012
07/25/2018
03/03/2013
07/04/2017
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the _assemble_line function in modules/pam_env/pam_env.c in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string of white spaces at the beginning of the ~/.pam_environment file.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-pam
- oracle-linux-upgrade-pam-devel
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