7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-0015

Published: 14/01/2010 Updated: 07/12/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

nis/nss_nis/nis-pwd.c in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.7 and Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) 2.10.2 adds information from the passwd.adjunct.byname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows remote malicious users to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function.

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gnu glibc 2.10.2

gnu glibc 2.7

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Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered and fixed in the GNU C Library ...
Christoph Pleger has discovered that the GNU C Library (aka glibc) and its derivatives add information from the passwdadjunctbyname map to entries in the passwd map, which allows local users to obtain the encrypted passwords of NIS accounts by calling the getpwnam function For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in ver ...