Name | CVE-2009-3232 |
Description | pam-auth-update for PAM, as used in Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.4, and Debian GNU/Linux, does not properly handle an "empty selection" for system authentication modules in certain rare configurations, which causes any attempt to be successful and allows remote attackers to bypass authentication. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 519927 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
pam (PTS) | jessie | 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u2 | fixed |
stretch | 1.1.8-3.6 | fixed | |
buster | 1.3.1-5 | fixed | |
bullseye | 1.4.0-9+deb11u1 | fixed | |
bookworm | 1.5.2-6+deb12u1 | fixed | |
sid, trixie | 1.5.3-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pam | source | etch | (not affected) | |||
pam | source | lenny | (not affected) | |||
pam | source | (unstable) | 1.0.1-10 | 519927 |
[lenny] - pam <not-affected> (pam-auth-update not yet present)
[etch] - pam <not-affected> (pam-auth-update not yet present)