CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2977

2.1 LOW Published 2005-11-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-11-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

Affected configurations

• pam pam (<= 0.80)

References