CVE-2015-0885

high

Description

checkpw 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192

http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html

http://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-02-28

Updated: 2015-09-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High