Vulnerability CVE-2015-0885
Published: 2015-02-27   Modified: 2015-02-28

Description:
checkpw 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Debian -> Debian linux 
Checkpw project -> Checkpw 

 References:
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html
http://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt
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