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CVE-2006-0056 Details

Description

Double free vulnerability in the authentication and authentication token alteration code in PAM-MySQL 0.6.x before 0.6.2 and 0.7.x before 0.7pre3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted passwords, which lead to a double free of a pointer that was created by the pam_get_item function. NOTE: this issue only occurs in certain configurations in which there are multiple PAM modules, PAM-MySQL is not evaluated first, and there are no requisite modules before PAM-MySQL.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://jvn.jp/cert/JVNVU%23693909/index.html	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/18598	CVE	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20690	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015603	CVE	Patch
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=499394	CVE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-18.xml	CVE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/693909	CVE	PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
http://www.osvdb.org/22994	CVE
http://www.osvdb.org/22995	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16564	CVE	Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0490	CVE
http://jvn.jp/cert/JVNVU%23693909/index.html	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/18598	[email protected]	PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20690	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015603	[email protected]	Patch
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=499394	[email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-18.xml	[email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/693909	[email protected]	PatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
http://www.osvdb.org/22994	[email protected]
http://www.osvdb.org/22995	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16564	[email protected]	Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0490	[email protected]

see all 22 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-119	Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
pam-mysql pam-mysql	0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4.7
CPE cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.4.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.7_pre1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.7_pre2:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

pam-mysql pam-mysql

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.4.7

CPE

cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.4.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.7_pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pam-mysql:pam-mysql:0.7_pre2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 16, 2026		[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 13, 2006	Initial Analysis	[email protected]