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CVE-2006-0056

CVE-2006-0056 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

Double free vulnerability in the authentication and authentication token alteration code in PAM-MySQL 0.6.x before 0.6.2 and 0.7.x before 0.7pre3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted passwords, which lead to a double free of a pointer that was created by the pam_get_item function. NOTE: this issue only occurs in certain configurations in which there are multiple PAM modules, PAM-MySQL is not evaluated first, and there are no requisite modules before PAM-MySQL.

EPSS 22.62% · 96.0th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 2.0
7.5
EPSS Score
22.62%
96.0th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
pam-mysqlpam-mysql0.4.7, *, 0.1
n/an/an/a

Timeline

  • Feb 13, 2006 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
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  • Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
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