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CVE-2015-0885

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

checkpw 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.

Affected products

• Checkpw Project Checkpw: through 1.02
• Debian Linux: 7.0

References

• http://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192
• http://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192

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