| Name | CVE-2024-10041 |
| Description | A vulnerability was found in PAM. The secret information is stored in memory, where the attacker can trigger the victim program to execute by sending characters to its standard input (stdin). As this occurs, the attacker can train the branch predictor to execute an ROP chain speculatively. This flaw could result in leaked passwords, such as those found in /etc/shadow while performing authentications. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1086038 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pam (PTS) | bullseye | 1.4.0-9+deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 1.5.2-6+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, trixie | 1.7.0-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pam | source | experimental | 1.7.0-1 | | | |
| pam | source | (unstable) | 1.7.0-2 | | | 1086038 |
Notes
[bookworm] - pam <ignored> (Minor issue; requires src:apparmor changes, cf #1110326)
[bullseye] - pam <ignored> (Minor issue; requires src:apparmor changes, cf #1110326, and may break SELINUX)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2319212
https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/issues/846
https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/pull/686
https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/commit/b3020da7da384d769f27a8713257fbe1001878be (v1.6.0)
https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/commit/b7b96362087414e52524d3d9d9b3faa21e1db620 (v1.6.1)