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