cve-2023-4641
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-27 15:43
Modified
2024-08-02 07:31
Summary
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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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 2:4.6-19.el8   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 2:4.6-17.el8_6   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 2:4.6-17.el8_8.2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::crb
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 2:4.9-8.el9   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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