CVE-2005-2977 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/NEWS?rev=1.6&view=markup http://secunia.com/advisories/17346 http://secunia.com/advisories/17350 http://secunia.com/advisories/17352 http://secunia.com/advisories/17365 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015111 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-22.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-805.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15217 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2227 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168181 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10193