CVE-2018-7169

NameCVE-2018-7169
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap (in shadow-utils) is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if the administrator has used "group blacklisting" (e.g., chmod g-rwx) to restrict access to paths. This flaw effectively reverts a security feature in the kernel (in particular, the /proc/self/setgroups knob) to prevent this sort of privilege escalation.
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Debian Bugs890557

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
shadow (PTS)buster1:4.5-1.1vulnerable
bullseye1:4.8.1-1fixed
bookworm1:4.13+dfsg1-1fixed
sid, trixie1:4.13+dfsg1-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
shadowsource(unstable)1:4.7-1low890557

Notes

[buster] - shadow <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - shadow <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - shadow <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - shadow <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1729357
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/97

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