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Permalink CVE-2025-14104
6.1 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): Low (L)
  • Integrity (I): None (N)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): Low (L)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): None (N)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago by @jopejoe1 Activity log
  • Created suggestion 3 months, 3 weeks ago
  • @jopejoe1 ignored package uutils-util-linux 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Util-linux: util-linux: heap buffer overread in setpwnam() when processing 256-byte usernames

A flaw was found in util-linux. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overread when processing 256-byte usernames, specifically within the `setpwnam()` function, affecting SUID (Set User ID) login-utils utilities writing to the password database.

References

Affected products

rhcos
util-linux
  • <2.41.3
  • *
util-linux-ng
rhceph/rhceph-7-rhel9
  • *
rhceph/rhceph-8-rhel9
  • *
rhui5/installer-rhel9
  • *
insights-proxy/insights-proxy-container-rhel9
  • *

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pkgs.libuuid

Set of system utilities for Linux

pkgs.util-linux

Set of system utilities for Linux

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