CVE-2005-2977

Description

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10193

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2005-2977

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168181

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2227

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15217

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-805.html

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-22.xml

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015111

http://secunia.com/advisories/17365

http://secunia.com/advisories/17352

http://secunia.com/advisories/17350

http://secunia.com/advisories/17346

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/NEWS?rev=1.6&view=markup

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS