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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-04T09:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:36:56.443Z

Reserved: 2017-08-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-12424

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-08-04T09:29:00.187

Modified: 2021-03-23T20:02:18.717

Link: CVE-2017-12424

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-03-31T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-12424 - Bugzilla