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CVE-2026-44710: pam_usb: NULL pointer dereference from UDisks device fields causes PAM crash and login denial-of-service
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-05-27 · updated 2026-10-26
- Weakness: CWE-476
Description
pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/device.c passed the return values of udisks_drive_get_serial(), udisks_drive_get_vendor(), and udisks_drive_get_model() directly to strcmp() without NULL checks. The GIO/UDisks API documentation states these accessors can return NULL for devices that do not expose the corresponding field. Passing NULL to strcmp() is undefined behaviour (typically a SIGSEGV). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7.
Affected products
- mcdope pam_usb: before 0.8.7
References
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