USN-3276-1: shadow vulnerabilities
USN-3276-1: shadow vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3276-1 5th May, 2017 shadow vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary su could be made to crash or stop programs as an administrator. Software description shadow – system login tools Details Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities.A local attacker could possibly cause them to crash or potentiallygain privileges via crafted input. (CVE-2016-6252) Tobias Stöckmann discovered a race condition in su. A localattacker could cause su to send SIGKILL to other processes withroot privileges. (CVE-2017-2616) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 17.04: passwd 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.17.04.1 login 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.17.04.1 uidmap 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.17.04.1 Ubuntu 16.10: passwd 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.16.10.1 login 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.16.10.1 uidmap 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.16.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: passwd 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.2 login 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.2 uidmap 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.2 [ more… ]