CVE-2020-27678

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions illumos versions prior to 2020-10-22 OmniOS versions prior to r151030by, r151032ay, and r151034y SmartOS versions prior to 20201022

Description An issue was discovered in the affected software, which is related to a buffer overflow in the parse user name function located in lib/libpam/pam framework.c.

Recommendations For illumos versions prior to 2020-10-22, update to a version released after 2020-10-22. For OmniOS versions prior to r151030by, r151032ay, and r151034y, update to a version released after these versions. For SmartOS versions prior to 20201022, update to a version released after 20201022. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the parse user name function in lib/libpam/pam framework.c until a patch is available.