CVE-2015-5292 (GCVE-0-2015-5292)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-10-29 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:41
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Summary
Memory leak in the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) responder plugin (sssd_pac_plugin.so) in System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.10 before 1.13.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of logins that trigger parsing of PAC blobs during Kerberos authentication.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2015-10-11 00:00
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