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pwdutils is a set of utilities which manage password and user information, and is maintained by Thorsten Kukuk. An issue has been discovered in pwdutils, which could allow an unauthorized user to modify the root password. Exploitation of this issue requires, a remote user to submit the rpasswdd command and change the root password.

pwdutils is a set of utilities which manage password and user information, and is maintained by Thorsten Kukuk. An issue has been discovered in pwdutils, which could allow an unauthorized user to modify the root password. Exploitation of this issue requires, a remote user to submit the rpasswdd command and change the root password.