CVE-2015-5292

medium
Published 2015-10-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Memory leak in the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) responder plugin (sssd_pac_plugin.so) in System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) 1.10 before 1.13.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of logins that trigger parsing of PAC blobs during Kerberos authentication.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5292

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.sssd.user/3422

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.13.1-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.13.1-1
debian debiansidfixed1.13.1-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.13.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
fedoraprojectsssd1.10.0
fedoraprojectsssd1.10.1
fedoraprojectsssd1.11.0
fedoraprojectsssd1.11.1
fedoraprojectsssd1.11.2
fedoraprojectsssd1.11.3
fedoraprojectsssd1.11.4
fedoraprojectsssd1.11.5
fedoraprojectsssd1.11.6
fedoraprojectsssd1.11.7
fedoraprojectsssd1.12.0
fedoraprojectsssd1.12.1
fedoraprojectsssd1.12.2
fedoraprojectsssd1.12.3
fedoraprojectsssd1.12.4
fedoraprojectsssd1.12.5
fedoraprojectsssd1.13.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.