CVE-2011-5054 Information

Description

kcheckpass passes a user-supplied argument to the pam_start function often within a setuid environment which allows local users to invoke any configured PAM stack and possibly trigger unintended side effects via an arbitrary valid PAM service name a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4122. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the possibility of resultant privilege escalation may be \a bit far-fetched.\

Reference

http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2011/11/openpam-trickery.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/07/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/08/9 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/23/8 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/27/1 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/27/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/28/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/02/10 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/02/11 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72230