Advisories » MGASA-2017-0465

Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 22 Dec 2017
Modification date: 22 Dec 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2017-12424

Description

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).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22010
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-11/msg00030.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-12424

SRPMS

5/core

• shadow-utils-4.2.1-6.1.mga5

6/core

• shadow-utils-4.4-1.1.mga6