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CVE-2014-2583

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Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pam_timestamp.c in the pam_timestamp module for Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.8 allow local users to create arbitrary files or possibly bypass authentication via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) PAM_RUSER value to the get_ruser function or (2) PAM_TTY value to the check_tty function, which is used by the format_timestamp_name function.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published4/10/2014

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux-pam:linux-pam

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-22

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/57317(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/5(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/26/10(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/6(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66493(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-3(cve@mitre.org)

https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/linux-pam.git/commit/?id=Linux-PAM-1_1_8-32-g9dcead8(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-05(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/57317(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/5(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/26/10(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/6(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66493(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-3(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/linux-pam.git/commit/?id=Linux-PAM-1_1_8-32-g9dcead8(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-05(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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