CVE-2016-1601

CVE-2016-1601

EPSS 2.5%

yast2-users before 3.1.47, as used in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1, does not properly set empty password fields in /etc/shadow during an AutoYaST installation when the profile does not contain inst-sys users, which might allow attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

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References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00051.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00007.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974220 https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/388020