CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5536

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2013-02-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-02-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

A certain Red Hat build of the pam_ssh_agent_auth module on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and Fedora Rawhide calls the glibc error function instead of the error function in the OpenSSH codebase, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or possibly gain privileges via crafted use of an application that relies on this module, as demonstrated by su and sudo.

Affected configurations

• fedora project fedora release rawhide • redhat enterprise linux 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References