CVE-2012-1502

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2012-03-08
Bugzilla:
801116: CVE-2012-1502 PyPAM: Double free by processing passwords containing NULL-bytes

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Double free vulnerability in the PyPAM_conv in PAMmodule.c in PyPam 0.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a NULL byte in a password string.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1502 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Satellite 5.4 Server Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 PyPAM Will not fix

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