| Name | CVE-2017-12424 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-2596-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 756630 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| shadow (PTS) | bullseye | 1:4.8.1-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1:4.8.1-1+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1:4.13+dfsg1-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1:4.17.4-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| shadow | source | stretch | 1:4.4-4.1+deb9u1 | DLA-2596-1 | ||
| shadow | source | (unstable) | 1:4.5-1 | 756630 |
[jessie] - shadow <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - shadow <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1266675
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/954e3d2e7113e9ac06632aee3c69b8d818cc8952 (4.5)