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
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| ? | ? | 4.14.0-rc1 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | 2:4.6-19.el8 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support | 2:4.6-17.el8_6 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support | 2:4.6-17.el8_8.2 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | 2:4.9-8.el9 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unspecified |
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.