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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2015-352

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2015-352
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published September 8, 2015
Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability: The chfn and chsh commands in util-linux's login-utils are vulnerable to a file name collision due to incorrect mkstemp usage. If the chfn and chsh binaries are both setuid-root they eventually call mkostemp in such a way that an attacker could repeatedly call them and eventually be able to overwrite certain files in /etc (CVE-2015-5224).

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiautil-linux2.25.2-3.1.mga5 (unaffected), 0 (affected)

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