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Gentoo: GLSA-200510-22 Normal: SELinux PAM Password Attack

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2005
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A vulnerability in SELinux PAM enables local brute-force password attacks on Gentoo installations. It is advisable to perform an upgrade.
A vulnerability in the SELinux version of PAM allows a local attacker to brute-force system passwords.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200510-22 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: SELinux PAM: Local password guessing attack Date: October 28, 2005 Bugs: #109485 ID: 200510-22

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in the SELinux version of PAM allows a local attacker to brute-force system passwords.
Background ========= PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is an architecture allowing the separation of the development of privilege granting software from the development of secure and appropriate authentication schemes. SELinux is an operating system based on Linux which includes Mandatory Access Control.
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