CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-14104

6.1 MEDIUM Published 2025-12-05 Modified 2026-10-18 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-12-05
Last modified
2026-10-18
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

A flaw was found in util-linux. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overread when processing 256-byte usernames, specifically within the `setpwnam()` function, affecting SUID (Set User ID) login-utils utilities writing to the password database.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References