CVE-2015-3246 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2015-3246 at MITRE

Description

libuser before 0.56.13-8 and 0.60 before 0.60-7, as used in the userhelper program in the usermode package, directly modifies /etc/passwd, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (inconsistent file state) by causing an error during the modification. NOTE: this issue can be combined with CVE-2015-3245 to gain privileges.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 937533 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2015:1332-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:33 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Liberty Linux 7	`libuser >= 0.60-7.el7_1` `libuser-devel >= 0.60-7.el7_1` `libuser-python >= 0.60-7.el7_1`	Patchnames: RHSA-2015:1483

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Jul 9 15:22:32 2015
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:22:40 2025