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CVE-2015-5292

Public on 2015-10-29
Modified on 2016-01-18
Description

It was found that SSSD's Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) responder plug-in would leak a small amount of memory on each authentication request. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to exhaust all available memory on the system by making repeated requests to a Kerberized daemon application configured to authenticate using the PAC responder plug-in.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 sssd 2016-01-18 11:00 ALAS-2016-635

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C