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.
References
Link | Resource |
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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756630 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1266675 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/954e3d2e7113e9ac06632aee3c69b8d818cc8952 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00020.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-16 | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
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Information
Published : 2017-08-04 09:29
Updated : 2024-02-04 19:29
NVD link : CVE-2017-12424
Mitre link : CVE-2017-12424
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-12424
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Products Affected
debian
- debian_linux
shadow_project
- shadow
CWE
CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer