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CVE-2005-2977

Published: Nov 01, 2005 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2977
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pam Pam * 0.80 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat pam-0:0.77-66.13 *

References

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