USN-4290-2

It was discovered that libpam-radius-auth incorrectly handled certain long passwords. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libpam-radius-auth to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libpam-radius-auth

Package

Name: libpam-radius-auth
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libpam-radius-auth@1.3.17-0ubuntu4+esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.3.17-0ubuntu4+esm1

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.17-0ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam-radius-auth",
            "binary_version": "1.3.17-0ubuntu4+esm1"
        }
    ]
}