CVE-2014-2583: Linux-Pam

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pam_timestamp.c in the pam_timestamp module for Linux-PAM (aka pam) 1.1.8 allow local users to create arbitrary files or possibly bypass authentication via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) PAM_RUSER value to the get_ruser function or (2) PAM_TTY value to the check_tty function, which is used by the format_timestamp_name function.

Affected products

• Linux-Pam Linux-Pam: version 1.1.8 only

Published 2014-04-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.