Linux-PAM Login Bypass Security Vulnerability    Wednesday, January 24 2007 @ 01:30 PM EST Contributed by: sde A vulnerability has been reported in Linux-PAM, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions. The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "_unix_verify_password()" function in modules/pam_unix/support.c when verifying a user's password. This can be exploited to login with any given password if the hash in the passwd file is "!!" or similar.   [ Views: 1474 ]   Linux-PAM Login Bypass Security Vulnerability | 0 comments | Create New Account Newest First Oldest First Flat Nested No Comments Threaded The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say. No user comments.	What's Related More by sde More from Security Story Options Mail Story to a Friend Printable Story Format We have written a range of guides highlighting excellent free books for popular programming languages. Check out the following guides: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, HTML, Python, Ruby, Perl, Haskell, PHP, Lisp, R, Prolog, Scala, Scheme, and SQL.