CVE-2014-2583

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS5.8

Exploit probability—

ProductLinux-pam

PublishedApr 10, 2014

First seenApr 10, 2014

How to fix

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-05

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
linux-pam linux-pam	1.1.8	—

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