CVE-2006-3742

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-3742
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-09-06 20:04:00 UTC
Updated2008-09-05 21:07:00 UTC
DescriptionThe KDE PAM configuration shipped with Fedora Core 5 causes KDM passwords to be cached, which allows attackers to login without a password by attempting to log in multiple times.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Kdebase 3.5.4_0.4.fc5 All All All
Application Kde Kdebase 3.5.4_0.4.fc5 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-942 (kdebase) [LWN.net] FEDORA lwn.net Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-03-14Mark J CoxRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

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