Advisories » MGASA-2018-0177

Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Mar 2018
Modification date: 19 Mar 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5 , 6
CVE: CVE-2018-7169

Description

Privilege escalation in newgidmap, which allowed an unprivileged user
to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is allowed
(CVE-2018-7169).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22766
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-03/msg00036.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7169

SRPMS

5/core

• shadow-utils-4.2.1-6.2.mga5

6/core

• shadow-utils-4.4-1.2.mga6