CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4122
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-11-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in openpam_configure.c in OpenPAM before r478 on FreeBSD 8.1 allows local users to load arbitrary DSOs and gain privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the service_name argument to the pam_start function, as demonstrated by a .. in the -c option to kcheckpass.
Affected configurations
• freebsd freebsd 8.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/11/openpam-trickery.html Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/07/3 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/08/9 openwall.com
- http://osvdb.org/76945 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46756 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46804 Vendor Advisory
- http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/pamslam stealth.openwall.net
- http://trac.des.no/openpam/changeset/478/trunk/lib/openpam_configure.c trac.des.no
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71205 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/11/openpam-trickery.html Exploit
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/07/3 openwall.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/08/9 openwall.com
- http://osvdb.org/76945 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46756 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46804 Vendor Advisory
- http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/pamslam stealth.openwall.net
- http://trac.des.no/openpam/changeset/478/trunk/lib/openpam_configure.c trac.des.no
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71205 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com