CVE 4.6 MEDIUM

pam_usb: NULL pointer dereference from UDisks device fields causes PAM crash and login denial-of-service_CVE-2026-44710

4.6 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-44710
Source GitHub_M
Published May 27, 2026 at 20:19

Affected Product

Vendor mcdope
Product pam_usb
Version < 0.8.7
Affected Versions mcdope pam_usb < 0.8.7

CWE Classification

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