A vulnerability has been identified in various Redhat products, which could be exploited by local attackers to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in coreutils that does not use the pam_succeed_if Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) correctly in the configuration file for the "su" command, which could allow a malicious user to change to a locked or expired user account via "su".
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