It was reported that the OATH PAM module did not check if a strdup() allocation succeeded: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/543 If they failed, it could cause the application to crash (NULL pointer dereference). CVE request: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/543 In low memory situations where strdup() may fail, it may already be an unrecoverable situation for the application. References: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/543 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742140
Created oath-toolkit tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1161363] Affects: epel-6 [bug 1161364] Affects: epel-7 [bug 1161365]
oath-toolkit-2.4.1-6.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
oath-toolkit-2.4.1-6.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
oath-toolkit-2.0.2-5.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
oath-toolkit-2.4.1-8.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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