CVE-2002-1594

NameCVE-2002-1594
DescriptionBuffer overflow in (1) grpck and (2) pwck, if installed setuid on a system as recommended in some AIX documentation, may allow local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
shadow (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:4.2-3+deb8u5fixed
stretch (security)1:4.4-4.1+deb9u1fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:4.4-4.1+deb9u2fixed
buster, buster (lts)1:4.5-1.1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye1:4.8.1-1fixed
bookworm1:4.13+dfsg1-1fixed
sid, trixie1:4.16.0-7fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
shadowsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- shadow <not-affected> (Debian's pwck and grpck do not overflow and are not suid)

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