pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/device.c passed the return values of udisks_drive_get_serial(), udisks_drive_get_vendor(), and udisks_drive_get_model() directly to strcmp() without NULL checks. The GIO/UDisks API documentation states these accessors can return NULL for devices that do not expose the corresponding field. Passing NULL to strcmp() is undefined behaviour (typically a SIGSEGV). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7.
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| Description | pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using ordinary removable media. Prior to 0.8.7, src/device.c passed the return values of udisks_drive_get_serial(), udisks_drive_get_vendor(), and udisks_drive_get_model() directly to strcmp() without NULL checks. The GIO/UDisks API documentation states these accessors can return NULL for devices that do not expose the corresponding field. Passing NULL to strcmp() is undefined behaviour (typically a SIGSEGV). This vulnerability is fixed in 0.8.7. | |
| Title | pam_usb: NULL pointer dereference from UDisks device fields causes PAM crash and login denial-of-service | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-476 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-05-27T20:19:35.374Z
Reserved: 2026-05-07T17:07:09.318Z
Link: CVE-2026-44710
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-27T21:16:17.947
Modified: 2026-05-27T21:16:17.947
Link: CVE-2026-44710
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