Unscored severity · published Oct 29, 2015
CVE-2015-5292
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…
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CVSS
3.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.7% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SS
Sssd · Fedoraproject
1.10.0; 1.10.1; 1.11.0; 1.11.1; 1.11.2; 1.11.3; +11 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5292
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5292
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169110.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169597.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169613.html
Vendor Advisory
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.sssd.user/3422
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2019.html
rhn.redhat.com
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2355.html
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