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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2015-08-11T14:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:39:32.007Z

Reserved: 2015-04-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-3245

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-08-11T14:59:05.570

Modified: 2023-02-13T00:48:56.483

Link: CVE-2015-3245

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-07-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-3245 - Bugzilla