Shadow: Buffer overflow

Shadow: Buffer overflow A vulnerability found in Shadow may allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition or produce other unspecified behaviors. shadow 2017-10-15 2017-10-15 627044 remote 4.5 4.5

Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.

Malformed input in the newusers tool may produce crashes and other unspecified behaviors.

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Shadow users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/shadow-4.5"

CVE-2017-12424 b-man chrisadr