Upstream information

CVE-2015-5292 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.8
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

Note from the SUSE Security Team

The affected plugin is not part of the sssd package distributed by SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 and older.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 948819 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7
  • libipa_hbac >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • libipa_hbac-devel >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • libsss_idmap >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • libsss_idmap-devel >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • libsss_nss_idmap >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • libsss_nss_idmap-devel >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • libsss_simpleifp >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • libsss_simpleifp-devel >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • python-libipa_hbac >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • python-libsss_nss_idmap >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • python-sss >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • python-sss-murmur >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • python-sssdconfig >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-ad >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-client >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-common >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-common-pac >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-dbus >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-ipa >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-krb5 >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-krb5-common >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-ldap >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-libwbclient >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-libwbclient-devel >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-proxy >= 1.13.0-40.el7
  • sssd-tools >= 1.13.0-40.el7
Patchnames:
RHSA-2015:2355


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS sssd Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 sssd Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 sssd Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Oct 5 13:16:01 2015
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 30 17:17:41 2023