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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-2977
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CVE-2005-2977

Description:
The SELinux version of PAM before 0.78 r3 allows local users to perform brute force password guessing attacks via unix_chkpwd, which does not log failed guesses or delay its responses.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

ST
  1015111

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA17352
  Secunia Advisory: SA17350
  Secunia Advisory: SA17365
  Secunia Advisory: SA17346

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-805.html

MISC

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-22.xml

CONFIRM
  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/NEWS?rev=1.6&view=markup

BID
  15217


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