MGASA-2017-0465

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    MGASA-2017-0465

    Published: 22 Dec 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-12424

    Summary: Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: 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://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0465.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22010, https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-11/msg00030.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: shadow-utils

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/shadow-utils?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.2.1-6.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
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    High