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CVE-2015-9542
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
CVSSv3.1 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
add_password in pam_radius_auth.c in pam_radius 1.4.0 does not correctly check the length of the input password, and is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow during memcpy(). An attacker could send a crafted password to an application (loading the pam_radius library) and crash it. Arbitrary code execution might be possible, depending on the application, C library, compiler, and other factors..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- None
CVSSv3.1 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 3.6/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- High
- Integrity Impact
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- User Interaction
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:freeradius:pam_radius:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-9542
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00023.html
- https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/pam_radius/commit/01173ec2426627dbb1e0d96c06c3ffa0b14d36d0
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4290-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4290-2/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00000.html