Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-2395 - Unspecified vulnerability in Mandrakesoft products

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN

Summary

Memory leak in passwd 0.68 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of failed read attempts from the password buffer.

Nessus

NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
NASL idMANDRAKE_MDKSA-2004-045.NASL
descriptionSteve Grubb found some problems in the passwd program. Passwords given to passwd via stdin are one character shorter than they are supposed to be. He also discovered that pam may not have been sufficiently initialized to ensure safe and proper operation. A few small memory leaks have been fixed as well. The updated packages are patched to correct these problems.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id14144
published2004-07-31
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2004-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/14144
titleMandrake Linux Security Advisory : passwd (MDKSA-2004:045)