Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Shadow: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201706-02 First vendor Publication 2017-06-06
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-06-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 4.7 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 3.4 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Shadow, the worst of which might allow privilege escalation.

Background

Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Shadow. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition, gain privileges via crafted input, or SIGKILL arbitrary processes.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Shadow users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/shadow-4.4-r2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-6252 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6252
[ 2 ] CVE-2017-2616 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2616

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-02

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201706-02.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-362 Race Condition
50 % CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Application 1
Os 1
Os 2
Os 2
Os 2
Os 3
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0023.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-13 Name : The remote Virtuozzo host is missing a security update.
File : Virtuozzo_VZLSA-2017-0907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-06 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201706-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-17 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3276-2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-05 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3276-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1084.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-05-03 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2017-1083.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-28 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2017-823.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-14 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-13 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170412_util_linux_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-13 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-13 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0907.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-04-06 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20170321_coreutils_on_SL6_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2017-0052.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-0654.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-27 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2017-0654.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2017-0654.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-07 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-306.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-07 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-305.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-02 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-b11b460865.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-03-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-20710607f5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3793.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-27 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-838.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-24 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0553-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-24 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0555-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-02-24 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-0554-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2018-09-21 17:21:37
  • Multiple Updates
2018-07-29 09:21:23
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-07 13:24:43
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-06 09:22:31
  • First insertion