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title: "CVE-2023-0634\n    | Ubuntu"
description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the
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url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-0634?format=md
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# CVE-2023-0634

Publication date 2 February 2023

Last updated 4 August 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Negligible**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none.
Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation
showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-0634?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| shadow | 22.10 kinetic | Not affected |
| 22.04 LTS jammy | Not affected |
| 20.04 LTS focal | Not affected |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not affected |
| 16.04 LTS xenial | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not affected |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [alexmurray](https://launchpad.net/~alexmurray)

From a quick look at the upstream bug report and inspecting the
code, I can't see how this could be exploited / influenced to
escalate privileges etc and so I suspect this is not a real
vulnerability.

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-0634)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0634)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2023-0634)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0634)

### Other references

* <https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/642>
* <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-0634>
* <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2166544>
* <https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/cpp/cpp-uncontrolled-process-operation/>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0634>
