CVE-2025-24031 (GCVE-0-2025-24031)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-10 15:38 – Updated: 2025-02-10 15:50
VLAI?
Title
PAM-PKCS#11 vulnerable to segmentation fault on ctrl-c/ctrl-d when asked for PIN
Summary
PAM-PKCS#11 is a Linux-PAM login module that allows a X.509 certificate based user login. In versions 0.6.12 and prior, the pam_pkcs11 module segfaults when a user presses ctrl-c/ctrl-d when they are asked for a PIN. When a user enters no PIN at all, `pam_get_pwd` will never initialize the password buffer pointer and as such `cleanse` will try to dereference an uninitialized pointer. On my system this pointer happens to have the value 3 most of the time when running sudo and as such it will segfault. The most likely impact to a system affected by this issue is an availability impact due to a daemon that uses PAM crashing. As of time of publication, a patch for the issue is unavailable.
Severity ?
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenSC pam_pkcs11 Affected: <= 0.6.12
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