CVE-2015-0885

Published: 28/02/2015 Updated: 24/09/2015

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

checkpw 1.02 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.

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Debian Bug report logs - #780139 CVE-2015-0885 Package: checkpw; Maintainer for checkpw is Gerrit Pape <pape@smardenorg>; Source for checkpw is src:checkpw (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 17:03:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: fixed-upstream, patch, security ...

Hiroya Ito of GMO Pepabo, Inc reported that checkpw, a password authentication program, has a flaw in processing account names which contain double dashes A remote attacker can use this flaw to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 102-1+deb7u1 For the upcoming st ...

CWE-399 http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032 http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html http://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780139 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3192

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