USN-4290-1

It was discovered that libpam-radius-auth incorrectly handled certain long passwords. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libpam-radius-auth to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libpam-radius-auth

Package

Name: libpam-radius-auth
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libpam-radius-auth@1.3.17-0ubuntu4.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.3.17-0ubuntu4.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.17-0ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam-radius-auth",
            "binary_version": "1.3.17-0ubuntu4.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4290-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-9542",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / libpam-radius-auth