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CVE-2015-0885

Date: February 27, 2015

checkpw 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-0885

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0885

Url: http://checkpw.sourceforge.net/checkpw/changes.txt

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3192

Url: http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/995575/index.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-0885

Url: http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN34790526/index.html

Url: http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2015-000032

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-0885

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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