CVE-2019-12210 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pam-u2f  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-PAMU2F-349044
  • published4 Jun 2019
  • disclosed4 Jun 2019

Introduced: 4 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-12210  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pam-u2f package and not the pam-u2f package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Yubico pam-u2f 1.0.7, when configured with debug and a custom debug log file is set using debug_file, that file descriptor is not closed when a new process is spawned. This leads to the file descriptor being inherited into the child process; the child process can then read from and write to it. This can leak sensitive information and also, if written to, be used to fill the disk or plant misinformation.