System Security Services Daemon up to 1.13.0 Privilege Attribute Certificate Responder Plugin resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in System Security Services Daemon up to 1.13.0. Affected is an unknown function of the component Privilege Attribute Certificate Responder Plugin. Executing a manipulation can lead to resource management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2015-5292. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in System Security Services Daemon up to 1.13.0. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown function of the component Privilege Attribute Certificate Responder Plugin. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Memory leak in the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) responder plugin (sssd_pac_plugin.so) in System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.10 before 1.13.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of logins that trigger parsing of PAC blobs during Kerberos authentication.

The weakness was released 10/29/2015 (Website). The advisory is available at fedorahosted.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-5292 since 07/01/2015. The attack can be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation requires a single authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 86831 (CentOS 6 : sssd (CESA-2015:2019)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 124260 (Red Hat Update for sssd(RHSA-2015:2355)).

Upgrading to version 1.13.1 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (86831), SecurityFocus (BID 77529†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-54216†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 86831
Nessus Name: CentOS 6 : sssd (CESA-2015:2019)
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OpenVAS ID: 14611
OpenVAS Name: Amazon Linux Local Check: alas-2016-635
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: System Security Services Daemon 1.13.1

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: RHSA-2015:2019
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-5292 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-5292
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-78946
SecurityFocus: 77529 - SSSD 'sss_client/sssd_pac.c' Denial of Service Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1034038
Vulnerability Center: 54216 - SSSD <1.13.1 Remote DoS in PAC Processing Plugin, Medium

Entryinfo

Created: 10/30/2015 09:17
Updated: 11/23/2024 20:46
Changes: 10/30/2015 09:17 (56), 03/11/2018 08:42 (16), 06/25/2022 13:17 (4), 06/25/2022 13:23 (1), 06/25/2022 13:29 (1), 11/23/2024 20:46 (24)
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