glsa-201706-02.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201706-02">
  <title>Shadow: Multiple vulnerabilities </title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Shadow, the worst of
    which might allow privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">shadow</product>
  <announced>2017-06-06</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-06-06</revised>
  <bug>610804</bug>
  <bug>620510</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/shadow" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.4-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.4-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Shadow. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition,
      gain privileges via crafted input, or SIGKILL arbitrary processes.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Shadow users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/shadow-4.4-r2"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6252">CVE-2016-6252</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2616">CVE-2017-2616</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-03-07T23:12:11Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-06-06T06:29:12Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>