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Bug 110453

Summary:	OpenSSH calls pam_end() incorrectly when it should return PAM_CONV_ERR
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Doug Sibley <das>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	3.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/otpw.html
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Description Doug Sibley 2003-11-19 17:18:18 UTC

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Description of problem:
See: 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/otpw.html
And see:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632

For a full description but basically PAM is exited uncleanly which 
could lead to things like failure to scrub memory or maybe other 
things with unusual pam modules.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openssh-3.1p1-14

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install otpw and run via OpenSSH/PAM
2. or write a simple test script and test pam module and run them.
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 7 Tomas Mraz 2005-06-27 14:02:50 UTC

I'm sorry but this bug cannot be easily fixed for RHEL 3 (it is fixed in RHEL 4).
The upstream patch is applicable only to the openssh-3.7p1 and the patch for
openssh-3.6.1p2 would be very invasive with a high risk of regressing other
functionality.