Double free vulnerability in the authentication and authentication token alteration...
Vulnerability Description
Double free vulnerability in the authentication and authentication token alteration code in PAM-MySQL 0.6.x before 0.6.2 and 0.7.x before 0.7pre3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted passwords, which lead to a double free of a pointer that was created by the pam_get_item function. NOTE: this issue only occurs in certain configurations in which there are multiple PAM modules, PAM-MySQL is not evaluated first, and there are no requisite modules before PAM-MySQL.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16564
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/693909
- http://www.osvdb.org/22994
- http://jvn.jp/cert/JVNVU%23693909/index.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015603
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0490
- http://www.osvdb.org/22995
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18598
- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=499394
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-18.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20690
Affected Vendor
pam-mysql
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Weaknesses (CWE)
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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
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