Vulnerability CVE-2023-4641


Published: 2023-12-27

Description:
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.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6632
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7112
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4641
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215945

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