CVE-2017-12424

shadow-utils: Buffer overflow via newusers tool

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 31, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A buffer overflow flaw leading to heap memory corruption was found in the shadow-utils's newusers utility. A local, authenticated attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash the newusers process by supplying crafted data to it.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')