vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-12424: Shadow: Buffer overflow

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 4, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or
bypass privilege boundaries in some web-hosting environments in which a
Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-apps-shadow
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