vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-40084: opensysusers -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 25, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Feb 20, 2026

Description

opensysusers through 0.6 does not safely use eval on files in sysusers.d that may contain shell metacharacters. For example, it allows command execution via a crafted GECOS field whereas systemd-sysusers (a program with the same specification) does not do that.

Solution

debian-upgrade-opensysusers
Title
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