CVE-2006-3742 (GCVE-0-2006-3742)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-09-06 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:39
VLAI
Summary
The KDE PAM configuration shipped with Fedora Core 5 causes KDM passwords to be cached, which allows attackers to login without a password by attempting to log in multiple times.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lwn.net/Alerts/197302/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2006-08-28 00:00
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