CVE-2012-1502

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1502
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-16 00:55:06 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionDouble free vulnerability in the PyPAM_conv in PAMmodule.c in PyPam 0.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a NULL byte in a password string.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pypam Pypam All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PyPAM: Arbitrary code execution (GLSA 201507-09) — Gentoo Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
USN-1395-1: PyPAM vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ubuntu.com
Security Advisory SA48746 - SUSE update for python-pam - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2430-1 python-pam af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www.osvdb.org/79892 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Security Advisory SA48312 - Debian update for python-pam - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA48332 - Ubuntu update for python-pam - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Startseite af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.lsexperts.de Exploit
openSUSE-SU-2012:0487-1: update for python-pam af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
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