CVE-2005-2977 (GCVE-0-2005-2977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-11-01 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 22:53
VLAI?
Summary
The SELinux version of PAM before 0.78 r3 allows local users to perform brute force password guessing attacks via unix_chkpwd, which does not log failed guesses or delay its responses.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/17346 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-805.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/17352 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2227 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015111 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-P… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/17350 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/17365 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15217 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20051… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
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