Description
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.
Published: 2017-08-04
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-3997 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5254-1 shadow vulnerabilities
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Debian Debian Linux
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

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

Reserved: 2017-08-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-12424

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-12424

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2017-12424 - Bugzilla

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