Security Advisory

CVE-2015-3246

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-08-11 14:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 05:39:32

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

libuser before 0.56.13-8 and 0.60 before 0.60-7, as used in the userhelper program in the usermode package, directly modifies /etc/passwd, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (inconsistent file state) by causing an error during the modification. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2015-3245 to gain privileges.

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