MEDIUM 5.5 Microsoft

CVE-2024-22365

linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.

Microsoft Security Update 2024-Feb: linux-pam (aka Linux PAM) before 1.6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked login process) via mkfifo because the openat call (for protect_dir) lacks O_DIRECTORY.

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Published: 2024-02-13 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-09-24
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5 was published on 2024-02-13 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 pam 1.5.1-6 on CBL Mariner 2.0, azl3 pam 1.5.3-2 on Azure Linux 3.0, cbl2 pam 1.5.1-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0 and 2 more.
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