CVE-2005-2977

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    CVE-2005-2977

    Published: 1 Nov 2005Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/17346, http://secunia.com/advisories/17350, http://secunia.com/advisories/17352, http://secunia.com/advisories/17365, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-22.xml, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2227, http://secunia.com/advisories/17365, http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-22.xml, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168181, http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pam/Linux-PAM/NEWS?rev=1.6&view=markup, http://securitytracker.com/id?1015111, http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-805.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15217, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10193

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High