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Package details: pkg:deb/ubuntu/shadow@1:4.8.1-1ubuntu4
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Next non-vulnerable version 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu5.20.04
Latest non-vulnerable version 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu5.20.04
Risk 3.1
Vulnerabilities affecting this package (1)
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VCID-n6ua-k7jb-aaap
Aliases:
CVE-2018-7169
An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap (in shadow-utils) is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if the administrator has used "group blacklisting" (e.g., chmod g-rwx) to restrict access to paths. This flaw effectively reverts a security feature in the kernel (in particular, the /proc/self/setgroups knob) to prevent this sort of privilege escalation.
1:4.8.1-1ubuntu5.20.04
Affected by 0 other vulnerabilities.
Vulnerabilities fixed by this package (0)
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