CVE-2017-12424
Published: 04 August 2017
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.
Priority
Low
CVSS 3 base score: 9.8
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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shadow Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(1:4.5-1)
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| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Not vulnerable
(1:4.5-1ubuntu1)
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| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
(1:4.5-1ubuntu1)
|
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Not vulnerable
(1:4.5-1ubuntu1)
|
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Needed
|
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Needed
|
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Patches: Other: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/954e3d2e7113e9ac06632aee3c69b8d818cc8952 |
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