CVE-2009-0579

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2009-02-07
Bugzilla:
487216: CVE-2009-0579 pam: MINDAYS not respected by pam for password changing

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Linux-PAM before 1.0.4 does not enforce the minimum password age (MINDAYS) as specified in /etc/shadow, which allows local users to bypass intended security policy and change their passwords sooner than specified.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0579 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of pam as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, or 6.

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