suse · CVE-2014-2583

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Tracker summary

CVE-2014-2583 severity moderate: SUSE including 61 source package names (pam, pam-1.1.5-0.12.1, …), 164 product×package rows across 50 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, … (50 product lines)): Fixed 93, Known Not Affected 71.

Description:

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pam_timestamp.c in the pam_timestamp module for Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.8 allow local users to create arbitrary files or possibly bypass authentication via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) PAM_RUSER value to the get_ruser function or (2) PAM_TTY value to the check_tty function, which is used by the format_timestamp_name function.