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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0041: shadow-utils (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0041)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 236030

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0041 advisory.

 Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2023-4641:
 A flaw was found in shadow-utils. When asking for a new password, shadow-utils asks the password twice. If the password fails on the second attempt, shadow-utils fails in cleaning the buffer used to store the first entry. This may allow an attacker with enough access to retrieve the password from the memory.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20240041.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 236030

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0041.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4641

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:shadow-utils-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:shadow-utils-subid, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:shadow-utils, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:shadow-utils-subid-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:shadow-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:shadow-utils-doc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:shadow-utils-subid-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-4641