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Case File

CVE-2012-5536

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.2 EPSS 0.44%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2013-02-22 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2012-5536
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.2
EPSS
0.44%
Linux

Original Filing — NVD Description

A certain Red Hat build of the pam_ssh_agent_auth module on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and Fedora Rawhide calls the glibc error function instead of the error function in the OpenSSH codebase, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or possibly gain privileges via crafted use of an application that relies on this module, as demonstrated by su and sudo.