UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2583

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pamtimestamp.c in the pamtimestamp module for Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.8 allow local users to create arbitrary files or possibly bypass authentication via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) PAMRUSER value to the getruser function or (2) PAMTTY value to the checktty function, which is used by the formattimestampname function.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pam

Package

Name: pam
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pam@1.1.8-1ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.1.8-1ubuntu2.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.3-8ubuntu3

1.1.3-10ubuntu1

1.1.3-11ubuntu1

1.1.8-1ubuntu1

1.1.8-1ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam-cracklib",
            "binary_version": "1.1.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam-modules",
            "binary_version": "1.1.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam-modules-bin",
            "binary_version": "1.1.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam-runtime",
            "binary_version": "1.1.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam0g",
            "binary_version": "1.1.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam0g-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.1.8-1ubuntu2.1"
        }
    ]
}