Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux-PAM's pam_xauth Module

CVE-2010-4707 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

The check_acl function in pam_xauth.c in the pam_xauth module in Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.2 and earlier does not verify that a certain ACL file is a regular file, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a special file.

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