Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux PAM (Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules)

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux PAM (Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules)

CVE-2024-22365 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.

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