Bug 1468427 (CVE-2017-1000082) - CVE-2017-1000082 systemd: fails to parse usernames that start with digits
Summary: CVE-2017-1000082 systemd: fails to parse usernames that start with digits
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-1000082
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1468430
Blocks: 1467225
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Reported: 2017-07-07 04:30 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-07-07 04:53:26 UTC
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Description Doran Moppert 2017-07-07 04:30:28 UTC 
Systemd version 323 rejects usernames starting with a digit (eg "0day"),
running the service with root privileges even though a corresponding user
exists.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6237

oss-sec discussion:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/02/1
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2017-07-07 04:40:47 UTC 
This issue seems to have been introduced since systemd-229.  Neither EL7 nor Fedora 24 is affected - not sure about 231/233.

For an attacker to exploit this they would need to influence the creation of a user and associated unit file on the system.
Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2017-07-07 04:52:25 UTC 
Created systemd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1468430]
Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2017-07-10 06:45:23 UTC 
Statement:

For more information on the impact of numeric usernames in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3103631
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