CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-6252
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
Integer overflow in shadow 4.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted input to newuidmap.
Affected configurations
• shadow project shadow 4.2.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/19/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/19/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92055 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979282 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/27 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3793 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/19/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/19/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/20/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/25/7 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92055 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979282 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/27 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02 security.gentoo.org