Published: 17/09/2009 Updated: 13/02/2024

CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 828

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

pam-auth-update for PAM, as used in Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.4, and Debian GNU/Linux, does not properly handle an "empty selection" for system authentication modules in certain rare configurations, which causes any attempt to be successful and allows remote malicious users to bypass authentication.

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Russell Senior discovered that the system authentication module selection mechanism for PAM did not safely handle an empty selection If an administrator had specifically removed the default list of modules or failed to chose a module when operating debconf in a very unlikely non-default configuration, PAM would allow any authentication attempt, wh ...

CWE-287 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519927 http://secunia.com/advisories/36620 https://launchpad.net/bugs/410171 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/09/08/7 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36306 https://usn.ubuntu.com/828-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/828-1/https://nvd.nist.gov

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