CVE-2017-12424
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12424
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12424.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-12424
- Related
- Published
- 2017-08-04T09:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-04-20T03:38:11.907891Z
- Downstream
- Severity
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- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-16
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00020.html
- https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/954e3d2e7113e9ac06632aee3c69b8d818cc8952
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756630
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1266675
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12424
Affected packages
Debian:11 / shadow
Package
- Name
- shadow
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/shadow?arch=source
Debian:12 / shadow
Package
- Name
- shadow
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/shadow?arch=source
Debian:13 / shadow
Package
- Name
- shadow
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/shadow?arch=source