CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-6549

Published: Mar 30, 2009 | Modified: Mar 30, 2009

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

5 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6549
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

The password_checker function in config/multiconfig.py in MoinMoin 1.6.1 uses the cracklib and python-crack features even though they are not thread-safe, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via unknown vectors.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Moinmoin	Moinmo	1.6.1 (including)	1.6.1 (including)

References

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