CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-0885
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-02-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
checkpw 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• checkpw project checkpw (<= 1.02)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt checkpw.sourceforge.net
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html Vendor Advisory
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html Vendor Advisory
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192 www.debian.org
- http://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt checkpw.sourceforge.net
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html Vendor Advisory
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html Vendor Advisory
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192 www.debian.org