ALT-PU-2015-1829-1
Closed vulnerabilities
Published: 2014-04-11
Modified: 2024-11-21
Modified: 2024-11-21
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.
Severity: MEDIUM (5.8)
References:
- 57317
- 57317
- [oss-security] 20140324 pam_timestamp internals
- [oss-security] 20140324 pam_timestamp internals
- [oss-security] 20140326 Re: pam_timestamp internals
- [oss-security] 20140326 Re: pam_timestamp internals
- [oss-security] 20140331 Re: pam_timestamp internals
- [oss-security] 20140331 Re: pam_timestamp internals
- 66493
- 66493
- USN-2935-1
- USN-2935-1
- USN-2935-2
- USN-2935-2
- USN-2935-3
- USN-2935-3
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/linux-pam.git/commit/?id=Linux-PAM-1_1_8-32-g9dcead8
- https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/linux-pam.git/commit/?id=Linux-PAM-1_1_8-32-g9dcead8
- GLSA-201605-05
- GLSA-201605-05