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SUSE: CVE-2023-4641: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2023-4641: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/13/2023
Created
09/14/2023
Added
09/14/2023
Modified
01/08/2024

Description

A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-login_defs
  • suse-upgrade-shadow

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