shadow: Buffer overflow via newusers tool (CVE-2017-12424)
CVE-2017-12424: Buffer overflow via newusers tool
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:
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-12424/
Patch:
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/954e3d2e7113e9ac06632aee3c69b8d818cc8952
(from redmine: issue id 8059, created on 2017-10-25)
- Relations:
- child #8078 (closed)
- child #8079 (closed)