It was discovered that libuser did not properly validate the GECOS field when changing user information. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt the passwd file, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3245) It was discovered that libuser modified the passwd file in place when updating user information.
USN-8987-1: libuser vulnerabilities
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