linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.

According to the versions of the pam package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login     process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - pam: allowing unprivileged user to block another user namespace (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2024-2438 advisory.

  - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login     process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2438 advisory.

  - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login     process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the pam-1.5.1-19.el9 build changelog.

  - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login     process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the pam package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login     process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6588-2 advisory.

  - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login     process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-502 advisory.

  - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login     process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of pam installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1.8-23. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2435 advisory.

  - linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login     process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY. (CVE-2024-22365)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of pam installed on the remote host is prior to 1.6.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2024-026-01 advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0137-1 advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0136-1 advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6588-1 advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
197123	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.0 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1633)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
197116	EulerOS Virtualization 2.11.1 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1614)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
196843	RHEL 7 : pam (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
195028	Oracle Linux 9 : pam (ELSA-2024-2438)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
194768	RHEL 9 : pam (RHSA-2024:2438)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
193930	CentOS 9 : pam-1.5.1-19.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
193633	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1553)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
193607	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1534)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
193007	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1492)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
193003	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1513)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
192577	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : PAM vulnerability (USN-6588-2)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
192002	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1322)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191970	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1344)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191858	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1243)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
191801	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : pam (EulerOS-SA-2024-1221)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
190072	Amazon Linux 2023 : pam, pam-devel (ALAS2023-2024-502)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
190030	Amazon Linux 2 : pam (ALAS-2024-2435)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
189866	Slackware Linux 15.0 / current pam Vulnerability (SSA:2024-026-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	medium
189228	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : pam (SUSE-SU-2024:0137-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
189208	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : pam (SUSE-SU-2024:0136-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
189143	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : PAM vulnerability (USN-6588-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium

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