Improper Input Validation Affecting libuser package, versions <1:0.62~dfsg-0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.39% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-LIBUSER-515717
  • published11 Aug 2015
  • disclosed11 Aug 2015

Introduced: 11 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-3245  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 libuser to version 1:0.62~dfsg-0.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libuser package and not the libuser package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1