Vulnerability CVE-2015-5292
Published: 2015-10-29

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.

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Fedoraproject -> SSSD 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169110.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169597.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/169613.html
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.sssd.user/3422
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2019.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2355.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77529
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034038
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267580
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/attachment/ticket/2803/0001-Fix-memory-leak-in-sssdpac_verify.patch
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/2803
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Releases/Notes-1.13.1
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