Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2430-1 python-pam

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2430-1 python-pam -- double free

Date Reported:

10 Mar 2012

Affected Packages:

python-pam

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-1502.

More information:

Markus Vervier discovered a double free in the Python interface to the PAM library, which could lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.2-12.2+squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.2-13.

We recommend that you upgrade your python-pam packages.