CVE-2005-2977

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2005-10-26
Bugzilla:
1617773: CVE-2005-2977 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-2977 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (pam) RHSA-2005:805 2005-10-26

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