Security Advisory

CVE-2011-3149

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-07-22 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 23:22:27

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

The _expand_arg function in the pam_env module (modules/pam_env/pam_env.c) in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.5 does not properly handle when environment variable expansion can overflow, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption).

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