CVE-2015-3245

38Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 5.3%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 11

1st PoCJul 27

metasploitJul 24

exploitation probability

5.3%top 8% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

3 public exploit(s)

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in the chfn function in libuser before 0.56.13-8 and 0.60 before 0.60-7, as used in the userhelper program in the usermode package, allows local users to cause a denial of service (/etc/passwd corruption) via a newline character in the GECOS field.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/37706unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/163044.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-July/162947.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1482.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1483.html https://access.redhat.com/articles/1537873 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44633/https://www.qualys.com/2015/07/23/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246/cve-2015-3245-cve-2015-3246.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76021 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033040