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Bug 553604 - net-mail/checkpw: DoS vulnerability (CVE-2015-0885)
Summary: net-mail/checkpw: DoS vulnerability (CVE-2015-0885)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL:
Whiteboard: ~3 [glsa?]
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Reported: 2015-06-29 23:43 UTC by GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot
Modified: 2016-03-15 08:29 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2015-06-29 23:43:35 UTC 
CVE-2015-0885 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0885):
  checkpw 1.02 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
  service (infinite loop) via a -- (dash dash) in a username.
Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2015-11-05 16:16:16 UTC 
Ccing treecleaners
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2016-02-20 17:58:51 UTC 
removed
Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-02-21 03:59:47 UTC 
Package removed per previous comments.  GLSA needed?
Comment 4 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-03-15 08:29:49 UTC 
Package removed from tree per [1].

[1]: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/67240888bb49c83e26731062d29042e8