CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-3503

Published: Nov 05, 2005 | Modified: Oct 19, 2018

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-3503
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

chfn in pwdutils 3.0.4 and earlier on SuSE Linux, and possibly other operating systems, does not properly check arguments for the GECOS field, which allows local users to gain privileges.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Pwdutils	Pwdutils	*	3.0.4 (including)

References

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