PT-2015-4941 · Checkpw · Checkpw

Hiroya Ito · Published 2015-02-28 · Updated 2015-09-24 · CVE-2015-0885

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions checkpw versions 1.02 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop, by including a -- (dash dash) in a username.

Recommendations For checkpw versions 1.02 and earlier, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the username parameter to prevent the inclusion of -- (dash dash) until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-0885

DLA-191-1

DSA-3192-1

Affected Products

Checkpw

References · 17

• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0885 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0885 · Vendor Advisory
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032 · Vendor Advisory
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0885 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3192-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0885 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3192-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0885 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0885 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-0885 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0885 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/checkpw · Vendor Advisory