kcheckpass passes a user-supplied argument to the pam_start function, often within a setuid environment, which allows local users to invoke any configured PAM stack, and possibly trigger unintended side effects, via an arbitrary valid PAM service name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4122.  NOTE: the vendor indicates that the possibility of resultant privilege escalation may be "a bit far-fetched."
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2012-01-06T21:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T00:23:39.906Z
Reserved: 2012-01-06T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2011-5054
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2012-01-06T21:55:01.217
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2011-5054
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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