Security Advisory

CVE-2010-0015

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-01-14 18:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 00:37:52

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.7 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) 2.10.2 adds information from the passwd.adjunct.byname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows remote attackers to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function.

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