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GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-24

GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-24
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published June 10, 2017
It was found that shadow-utils-4.2.1 had a potentially unsafe use of getlogin with the concern that the utmp entry might have a spoofed username associated with a correct uid (CVE-2016-6251). It was found that shadow-utils-4.2.1 had an incorrect integer handling problem where it looks like the int wrap is exploitable as a LPE, as the kernel is using 32bit uid's that are truncated from unsigned longs (64bit on x64) as returned by simple_strtoul() [map_write()]. (CVE-2016-6252).

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiathunderbird0 (affected), 52.1.1-1.mga5 (unaffected)
Mageiathunderbird-l10n0 (affected), 52.1.1-1.mga5 (unaffected)
Mageiashadow-utils0 (affected), 4.2.1-6.mga5 (unaffected), 0 (affected), 4.2.1-6.mga5 (unaffected)

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