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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2006-0056 Detail

Current Description

Double free vulnerability in the authentication and authentication token alteration code in PAM-MySQL 0.6.x before 0.6.2 and 0.7.x before 0.7pre3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted passwords, which lead to a double free of a pointer that was created by the pam_get_item function. NOTE: this issue only occurs in certain configurations in which there are multiple PAM modules, PAM-MySQL is not evaluated first, and there are no requisite modules before PAM-MySQL.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://jvn.jp/cert/JVNVU%23693909/index.html
http://jvn.jp/cert/JVNVU%23693909/index.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18598 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/18598 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/20690 Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/20690 Vendor Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015603 Patch 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015603 Patch 
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=499394
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=499394
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-18.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-18.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/693909 Patch  Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/693909 Patch  Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.osvdb.org/22994
http://www.osvdb.org/22994
http://www.osvdb.org/22995
http://www.osvdb.org/22995
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16564 Patch 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16564 Patch 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0490
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0490

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-0056
NVD Published Date:
02/13/2006
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
CERT/CC