This advisory is being published jointly by the CUSERT Coordination Center,
d0d-CERT, and the d0d Joint Task Force for Computer User Stupidity (JTF-CUS).
Original release date: February 19, 2000
Last revised: December 25, 2012
A complete revision history is at the end of this file.
Systems Affected
- ASCII based Password Authentication Modules
Overview
Poor error handling in many Password Authentication Modules which rely
on ASCII based data-input may result in a failure to authenticate users.
This could result in a denial of service to those users.