CVE-2026-44710 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 07.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 28.05.2026

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.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor mcdope
Product pam_usb
Versions
  • Version < 0.8.7 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference CWE