CVE-2015-3245
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2015-07-23 | |
| Impact: | Moderate | What is this? |
Description
It was found that libuser, as used by the chfn userhelper functionality, did not properly filter out newline characters in GECOS fields. A local, authenticated user could use this flaw to corrupt the /etc/passwd file, resulting in a denial-of-service on the system.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 1.7 |
| Vector String: | AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (libuser) | ELSA-2015-1482 | 2015-07-29 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (libuser) | ELSA-2015-1483 | 2015-07-23 |
| Oracle VM version 3.3 (libuser) | OVMSA-2015-0106 | 2015-07-30 |
| Oracle VM version 3.4 (libuser) | OVMSA-2015-0106 | 2015-07-30 |
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