Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 26, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2020-27678
CVE-2020-27678
Description
An issue was discovered in illumos before 2020-10-22, as used in OmniOS before r151030by, r151032ay, and r151034y and SmartOS before 20201022. There is a buffer overflow in parse_user_name in lib/libpam/pam_framework.c.
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Affected products
8- illumos/illumosdescription
Patches
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References
1- github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/1d276e0b382cf066dae93640746d8b4c54d15452nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
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