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oval:org.secpod.oval:def:700230
Kees Cook discovered that some shadow utilities did not correctly validate user input. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to inject newlines into the /etc/passwd file. If the system was configured to use NIS, this could lead to existing NIS groups or users gaining or losing access to the syste ...

oval:org.secpod.oval:def:600198
Kees Cook discovered that the chfn and chsh utilities do not properly sanitize user input that includes newlines. An attacker could use this to to corrupt passwd entries and may create users or groups in NIS environments. Packages in the oldstable distribution are not affected by this problem.

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CWE-20
*CVE
CVE-2011-0721

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