Security Advisory

CVE-2009-0887

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-03-12 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 04:48:52
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Integer signedness error in the _pam_StrTok function in libpam/pam_misc.c in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.0.3 and earlier, when a configuration file contains non-ASCII usernames, might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and might allow remote authenticated users to obtain login access with a different user's non-ASCII username, via a login attempt.