GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2017-465

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published December 22, 2017

It was found that shadow-utils had a buffer overflow where if a buffer was left NULL for a cycle the next cycle would happily write past the entries buffer (CVE-2017-12424).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	shadow-utils	0 (affected), 4.4-1.1.mga6 (unaffected)	—
Mageia	shadow-utils	0 (affected), 4.2.1-6.1.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2017-12424

References

Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

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