CVE-2017-12424 (GCVE-0-2017-12424)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-04 09:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:36
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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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