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CVE-2020-10595 Detail

Description

pam-krb5 before 4.9 has a buffer overflow that might cause remote code execution in situations involving supplemental prompting by a Kerberos library. It may overflow a buffer provided by the underlying Kerberos library by a single '\0' byte if an attacker responds to a prompt with an answer of a carefully chosen length. The effect may range from heap corruption to stack corruption depending on the structure of the underlying Kerberos library, with unknown effects but possibly including code execution. This code path is not used for normal authentication, but only when the Kerberos library does supplemental prompting, such as with PKINIT or when using the non-standard no_prompt PAM configuration option.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/31/1 Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/31/1 Mailing List  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/rra/pam-krb5/commit/e7879e27a37119fad4faf133a9f70bdcdc75d760 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/rra/pam-krb5/commit/e7879e27a37119fad4faf133a9f70bdcdc75d760 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00000.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00000.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4314-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4314-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4648 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4648 Third Party Advisory 
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2020-03-30.html
https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2020-03-30.html

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-10595
NVD Published Date:
03/31/2020
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
MITRE