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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3192-1 checkpw -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Mar 2015

Affected Packages:

checkpw

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 780139.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-0885.

More information:

Hiroya Ito of GMO Pepabo, Inc. reported that checkpw, a password authentication program, has a flaw in processing account names which contain double dashes. A remote attacker can use this flaw to cause a denial of service (infinite loop).

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.02-1+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.02-1.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.02-1.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your checkpw packages.