CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-3245

2.1 LOW Published 2015-08-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-08-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat libuser (<= 0.56.13-5) • redhat libuser 0.60-1 • redhat libuser 0.60-2 • redhat libuser 0.60-3 • redhat libuser 0.60-4 • redhat libuser 0.60-5 • redhat libuser 0.60-6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References