CVE-2023-29383Published
In Shadow 4.13, it is possible to inject control characters into fields provided to the SUID program chfn (change finger). Although it is not possible to exploit this directly (e.g., adding a new user fails because \n is in the block list),…
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CVE-2023-29383 · Microsoft / collected KEV context
cve-program · CVE-2023-29383
- https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/687
- https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/e5905c4b84d4fb90aefcd96ee618411ebfac663d
- https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/security-resources/security-advisories/?fid=31797
- https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/cve-2023-29383-abusing-linux-chfn-to-misrepresent-etc-passwd/
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