CVE-2025-14104 (GCVE-0-2025-14104)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-05 16:22
Modified
2026-04-08 16:36
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
A flaw was found in util-linux. This vulnerability allows a heap buffer overread when processing 256-byte usernames, specifically within the `setpwnam()` function, affecting SUID (Set User ID) login-utils utilities writing to the password database.
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1696 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1852 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1913 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2485 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2563 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2737 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2800 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3406 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:4943 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14104 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2419369 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
util-linux util-linux Version: 0   ≤
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Unaffected: 0:2.40.2-15.el10_1   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:2.32.1-48.el8_10   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:2.32.1-48.el8_10   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:2.37.4-21.el9_7   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
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    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 Unaffected: sha256:485411749726179fe5cd880e2cf308261b35150e4b356ddb7100f52e02b2e353   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:7::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 8 Unaffected: sha256:2325f237ab329cb3f1d3db4da40ed19f68d6daa2a5902c71be3f0d3cfcadd503   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:8::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 Unaffected: sha256:53a72419a7e4f4b332b9c6759ff1c389f226e26599236bc770d367c68bba911a   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ceph_storage:9::el10
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   Red Hat Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5 Unaffected: sha256:975a1e501a8520df83f3f4114e72a71384ff1866ec99c7a45fffbf8c76ef5cbc   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:insights_proxy:1.5::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5 Unaffected: sha256:48cf7cf48dfadb17f9357bf1894a5d0393551a893faa8b0ea0e11fe1ffed497f   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhui:5::el9
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    cpe:/a:redhat:rhui:5::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images     cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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