CVE-2005-2977

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-01 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Pam: through 0.80

References

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

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