CVE-2014-2583
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 4.1%
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pam_timestamp.c in the pam_timestamp module for Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.8 allow local users to create arbitrary files or possibly bypass authentication via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) PAM_RUSER value to the get_ruser function or (2) PAM_TTY value to the check_tty function, which is used by the format_timestamp_name function.
Affected products
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http://secunia.com/advisories/57317https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/linux-pam.git/commit/?id=Linux-PAM-1_1_8-32-g9dcead8https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-05http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/24/5http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/26/10http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/31/6http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66493http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2935-3