Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Not supplied / Not supplied | unaffected 4.14.0-rc1 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unaffected 2:4.6-19.el8 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support | unaffected 2:4.6-17.el8_6 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support | unaffected 2:4.6-17.el8_8.2 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected 2:4.9-8.el9 before * |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unknown |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unknown |
CWE
CWE-303
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6632
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7112
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0417
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2577
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4641
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215945
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6632
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7112
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0417
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2577
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4641
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215945
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/04/msg00026.html
No English description supplied.
No references supplied.