CVE-2011-3149 (GCVE-0-2011-3149)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-07-22 17:00
Modified
2024-08-06 23:22
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The _expand_arg function in the pam_env module (modules/pam_env/pam_env.c) in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.5 does not properly handle when environment variable expansion can overflow, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption).
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