CVE-2014-2583
EPSS 1.5%Published: 4/10/2014Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2583
Description
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pam_timestamp.c in the pam_timestamp module for Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.8 allow local users to create arbitrary files or possibly bypass authentication via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) PAM_RUSER value to the get_ruser function or (2) PAM_TTY value to the check_tty function, which is used by the format_timestamp_name function.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/pamfrom 0, < 1.1.8-3.1