A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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Debian DLA |
DLA-4130-1 | shadow security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2023-54493 | A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-6640-1 | shadow vulnerability |
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Solution
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Workaround
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2025-11-03T19:28:32.370Z
Reserved: 2023-08-30T17:16:27.137Z
Link: CVE-2023-4641
Updated: 2025-11-03T19:28:32.370Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-12-27T16:15:13.363
Modified: 2025-11-03T20:16:05.017
Link: CVE-2023-4641
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DLA
EUVD
Ubuntu USN