CVE-2015-9542
Published
CVSS v3
7.5
HIGH
CVSS v2
5
MEDIUM
Affected
1
PROJECT
Description
add_password in pam_radius_auth.c in pam_radius 1.4.0 does not correctly check the length of the input password, and is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow during memcpy(). An attacker could send a crafted password to an application (loading the pam_radius library) and crash it. Arbitrary code execution might be possible, depending on the application, C library, compiler, and other factors.
This is the PAM to RADIUS authentication module. It allows any Linux, OSX or Solaris machine to become a RADIUS client for authentication and password change requests.
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