CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2015-9542
High (7.5). EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
add_password in pam_radius_auth.c in pam_radius 1.4.0 does not correctly check the length of the input password, and is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow during memcpy(). An attacker could send a crafted password to an application (loading the pam_radius library) and crash it. Arbitrary code execution might be possible, depending on the application, C library, compiler, and other factors.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- freeradius:pam_radius
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-9542
- https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/pam_radius/commit/01173ec2426627dbb1e0d96c06c3ffa0b14d36d0
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00023.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00000.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4290-1/