{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2011-10-24T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "(pam_env): Infinite loop by expanding certain arguments",
    "id" : "746620",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746620"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "1.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-835",
  "details" : [ "The _expand_arg function in the pam_env module (modules/pam_env/pam_env.c) in Linux-PAM (aka pam) before 1.1.5 does not properly handle when environment variable expansion can overflow, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption)." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of pam package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook (Google ChromeOS Team) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2013-02-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0521",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "pam-0:1.1.1-13.el6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pam",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pam",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-3149\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3149" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-3149",
  "csaw" : false
}