Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4025-1 libpam4j -- security update

Date Reported:
08 Nov 2017
Affected Packages:
libpam4j
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-12197.
More information:

It was discovered that libpam4j, a Java library wrapper for the integration of PAM did not call pam_acct_mgmt() during authentication. As such a user who has a valid password, but a deactivated or disabled account could still log in.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libpam4j packages.