Cent OS: CVE-2015-3245: CESA-2015:1483 (libuser)
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/11/2015
07/25/2018
12/01/2016
07/04/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- centos-upgrade-libuser
- centos-upgrade-libuser-devel
- centos-upgrade-libuser-python
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