CVE-2006-0056 Information

Description

Double free vulnerability in the authentication and authentication token alteration code in PAM-MySQL 0.6.x before 0.6.2 and 0.7.x before 0.7pre3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted passwords which lead to a double free of a pointer that was created by the pam_get_item function. NOTE: this issue only occurs in certain configurations in which there are multiple PAM modules PAM-MySQL is not evaluated first and there are no requisite modules before PAM-MySQL.

Reference

http://jvn.jp/cert/JVNVU23693909/index.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18598 http://secunia.com/advisories/20690 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015603 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=499394 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-18.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/693909 http://www.osvdb.org/22994 http://www.osvdb.org/22995 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16564 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0490