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Ubuntu: USN-5254-1 (CVE-2017-12424): shadow vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5254-1 (CVE-2017-12424): shadow vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/04/2017
Created
02/01/2022
Added
01/28/2022
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

In shadow before 4.5, the newusers tool could be made to manipulate internal data structures in ways unintended by the authors. Malformed input may lead to crashes (with a buffer overflow or other memory corruption) or other unspecified behaviors. This crosses a privilege boundary in, for example, certain web-hosting environments in which a Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-login
  • ubuntu-upgrade-passwd
  • ubuntu-upgrade-uidmap

References

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