CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-0015
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-01-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.7 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) 2.10.2 adds information from the passwd.adjunct.byname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows remote attackers to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc 2.7
• gnu glibc 2.10.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560333 bugs.debian.org
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126320356003425&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126320570505651&w=2 marc.info
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11134 sourceware.org
- http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/any/submitted-nis-shadow.diff?revision=4062&view=markup svn.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:112 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/08/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/08/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/11/6 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560333 bugs.debian.org
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126320356003425&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126320570505651&w=2 marc.info
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11134 sourceware.org
- http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/trunk/debian/patches/any/submitted-nis-shadow.diff?revision=4062&view=markup svn.debian.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:111 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:112 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/08/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/08/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/11/6 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org