Description
Memory leak in passwd 0.68 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of failed read attempts from the password buffer.
References
- 10370 vdb-entry
- MDKSA-2004:045 vendor-advisory
- passwd-memory-leak(16180) vdb-entry
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120060