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1.8 KiB
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1.8 KiB
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201710-16">
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<title>Shadow: Buffer overflow</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability found in Shadow may allow remote attackers to cause
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a Denial of Service condition or produce other unspecified behaviors.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">shadow</product>
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<announced>2017-10-15</announced>
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<revised count="1">2017-10-15</revised>
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<bug>627044</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="sys-apps/shadow" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">4.5</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">4.5</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>Malformed input in the newusers tool may produce crashes and other
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unspecified behaviors.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or
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bypass privilege boundaries in some web-hosting environments in which a
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Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All Shadow users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/shadow-4.5"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12424">
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CVE-2017-12424
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</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-13T22:41:20Z">b-man</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-15T20:17:52Z">chrisadr</metadata>
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</glsa>
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