GLSA Advocate
Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 2663
|
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:26 pm Post subject: [ GLSA 201710-16 ] Shadow |
|
|
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: Shadow: Buffer overflow (GLSA 201710-16)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: 2017-10-15
Bug(s): #627044
ID: 201710-16
Synopsis
A vulnerability found in Shadow may allow remote attackers to cause
a Denial of Service condition or produce other unspecified behaviors.
Background
Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.
Affected Packages
Package: sys-apps/shadow
Vulnerable: < 4.5
Unaffected: >= 4.5
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
Malformed input in the newusers tool may produce crashes and other
unspecified behaviors.
Impact
A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or
bypass privilege boundaries in some web-hosting environments in which a
Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Shadow users should upgrade to the latest version: Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/shadow-4.5"
|
References
CVE-2017-12424
|
|