UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3245
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3245, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3245
Affected packages
Package
Name: libuser
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libuser?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -1:0.56.9.dfsg.1-1.2ubuntu2+esm1
Affected versions
1:0.56.9.dfsg.1-1.2ubuntu2
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
