CVE-2015-3245
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-08-11 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 05:39
Severity ?
Summary
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the chfn function in libuser before 0.56.13-8 and 0.60 before 0.60-7, as used in the userhelper program in the usermode package, allows local users to cause a denial of service (/etc/passwd corruption) via a newline character in the GECOS field.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163044.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162947.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1482.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1483.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76021
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033040
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/articles/1537873
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.qualys.com/2015/07/23/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246.txtExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163044.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162947.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1482.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1483.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76021
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033040
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/articles/1537873
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.qualys.com/2015/07/23/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246.txtExploit
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