CVE-2016-6252

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6252

Import Source

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6252

Downstream

Related

Published

2017-02-17T17:59:00.937Z

Modified

2026-03-15T22:09:17.629287Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

Integer overflow in shadow 4.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted input to newuidmap.

References

Affected packages

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow

Events

Introduced

Last affected

Database specific

{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.2.1"
        }
    ]
}

4.*

4.2.1

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6252.json"