USN-3276-1

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    USN-3276-1

    Published: 5 May 2017Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: shadow vulnerabilities

    Details: Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities. A local attacker could possibly cause them to crash or potentially gain privileges via crafted input. (CVE-2016-6252) Tobias Stöckmann discovered a race condition in su. A local attacker could cause su to send SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges. (CVE-2017-2616)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3276-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6252, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-2616

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: shadow

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/shadow@1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu9.4?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu9.4

    Affected versions

    1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu6
    1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu7
    1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu8
    1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu9
    1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu9.1
    1:4.1.5.1-1ubuntu9.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High