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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T18:36:56.443Z
Reserved: 2017-08-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-12424

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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-08-04T09:29:00.187
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:09:27.220
Link: CVE-2017-12424
