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Low: shadow-utils
Issue Overview: A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve t...
shadow-utils: possible password leak during passwd(1) change
A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from...
shadow Security breach
shadow is a suite of tools for maintaining Debian systems. utils is a utility program by Fred Smith, a personal developer. A security vulnerability exists in shadow-utils that stems from an inability to clear the buffer used to store the first entry, which could allow an attacker with sufficient...
SUSE CVE-2023-4641
A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from...
PT-2023-8971
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions shadow-utils affected versions not specified Description A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the...
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...
SUSE CVE-2006-1174
useradd in shadow-utils before 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.0.8, does not provide a required argument to the open function when creating a new user mailbox, which causes the mailbox to be created with unpredictable permissions and possibly allows attackers to read or modify the...
PT-2023-16413 · Unknown · Shadow-Utils
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: shadow-utils affected versions not specified Description: An uncontrolled process operation was found in the newgrp command provided by the shadow-utils package. This issue could cause the execution of arbitrary code provided by a user when...
USN-3276-2: shadow regression | Cloud Foundry
Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3276-1 intended to fix a vulnerability in su. The solution introduced a regression in su signal handling. This update modifies the security fix. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory...
USN-3276-2 shadow regression
USN-3276-1 intended to fix a vulnerability in su. The solution introduced a regression in su signal handling. This update modifies the security fix. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities. A local attacker...
USN-3276-1: shadow vulnerabilities
Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities. A local attacker could possibly cause them to crash or potentially gain privileges via crafted input. CVE-2016-6252 Tobias Stöckmann discovered a race condition in su. A local attacker could cause su to send SIGKILL to other...
USN-3276-1 shadow vulnerabilities
Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities. A local attacker could possibly cause them to crash or potentially gain privileges via crafted input. CVE-2016-6252 Tobias Stöckmann discovered a race condition in su. A local attacker could cause su to send SIGKILL to other...
The vulnerability of the Red Hat Linux operating system allows attackers to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of protected information.
The vulnerability of the shadow-utils-20000902 package in the Red Hat Linux operating system can lead to violations of confidentiality and integrity of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited locally...
Ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : shadow vulnerability (USN-1065-1)
Kees Cook discovered that some shadow utilities did not correctly validate user input. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to inject newlines into the /etc/passwd file. If the system was configured to use NIS, this could lead to existing NIS groups or users gaining or losing access to the...
USN-1065-1: shadow vulnerability
Kees Cook discovered that some shadow utilities did not correctly validate user input. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to inject newlines into the /etc/passwd file. If the system was configured to use NIS, this could lead to existing NIS groups or users gaining or losing access to the...
Shadow Utils useradd utility sets incorrect file permissions
Overview The Shadow Utilities contain a vulnerability that may result in new user mailboxes having arbitrary permissions. Description The Shadow Utilities provide tools to manage user accounts.When a new mailbox is created using the useradd utility, the open function does not receive the expected...
security flaw
useradd in shadow-utils before 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.0.8, does not provide a required argument to the open function when creating a new user mailbox, which causes the mailbox to be created with unpredictable permissions and possibly allows attackers to read or modify the...
shadow: Unauthorized modification of account information
Background shadow provides a set of utilities to deal with user accounts. Description Martin Schulze reported a flaw in the passwdcheck function in "libmisc/pwdcheck.c" which is used by chfn and chsh. Impact A logged-in local user with an expired password may be able to use chfn and chsh to chang...