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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-UTILLINUXCORE-14197332
  • published6 Dec 2025
  • disclosed5 Dec 2025

Introduced: 5 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-14104  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream util-linux-core package and not the util-linux-core package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in util-linux. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overread when processing 256-byte usernames, specifically within the setpwnam() function, affecting SUID (Set User ID) login-utils utilities writing to the password database.