Pam Extern CVE-2006-5659 Local Security Vulnerability

Pam Extern CVE-2006-5659 Local Security Vulnerability

Pam Extern is prone to a local security vulnerability. PAM_extern before 0.2 sends a password as a command line argument, which allows local users to obtain the password by listing the command line arguments, such as ps. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.