vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6640-1 (CVE-2023-4641): shadow vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 27, 2023
Added
Feb 16, 2024
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

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)

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libsubid-devubuntu-pro-upgrade-libsubid4ubuntu-pro-upgrade-loginubuntu-pro-upgrade-passwdubuntu-pro-upgrade-uidmap
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