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    CVE-2015-5292

    Memory leak in the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) responder plugin (sssd_pac_plugin.so) in System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.10 before 1.13.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of logins that trigger parsing of PAC blobs during Kerberos authentication.

    Published:Sep 23, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Oct 29, 2015
    EPSS Score:0.02687
    CVSS Score:6.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Sssd
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    References

    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169110.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169597.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169613.html
    http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.sssd.user/3422
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2019.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2355.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77529
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034038
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267580
    https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/attachment/ticket/2803/0001-Fix-memory-leak-in-sssdpac_verify.patch
    https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/2803
    https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Releases/Notes-1.13.1
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169110.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169597.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169613.html
    http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.sssd.user/3422
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2019.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2355.html
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77529
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034038
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267580
    https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/attachment/ticket/2803/0001-Fix-memory-leak-in-sssdpac_verify.patch
    https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/2803
    https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Releases/Notes-1.13.1

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