mcdope pam_usb up to 0.8.6 on Linux Removable Media src/device.c null pointer dereference

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in mcdope pam_usb up to 0.8.6 on Linux. Affected by this vulnerability is the function udisks_drive_get_serial/udisks_drive_get_vendor/udisks_drive_get_model of the file src/device.c of the component Removable Media Handler. Such manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-44710. The attack can be executed directly on the physical device. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in mcdope pam_usb up to 0.8.6 on Linux. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function udisks_drive_get_serial/udisks_drive_get_vendor/udisks_drive_get_model of the file src/device.c of the component Removable Media Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/device.c passed the return values of udisks_drive_get_serial(), udisks_drive_get_vendor(), and udisks_drive_get_model() directly to strcmp() without NULL checks. The GIO/UDisks API documentation states these accessors can return NULL for devices that do not expose the corresponding field. Passing NULL to strcmp() is undefined behaviour (typically a SIGSEGV). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-44710 since 05/07/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 0.8.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• mcdope

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• pam_usb

Version

• 0.8.0
• 0.8.1
• 0.8.2
• 0.8.3
• 0.8.4
• 0.8.5
• 0.8.6

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• Product: https://github.com/mcdope/pam_usb/

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