SUSE CVE-2023-29383

In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn change finger. Although it is not possible to exploit this directly e.g., adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list, it is possible to misrepresent the /etc/passwd file when...

AZL-26247 CVE-2023-29383 affecting package shadow-utils for versions less than 4.9-13

In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn change finger. Although it is not possible to exploit this directly e.g., adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list, it is possible to misrepresent the /etc/passwd file when...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-29383

In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn change finger. Although it is not possible to exploit this directly e.g., adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list, it is possible to misrepresent the /etc/passwd file when...