Race condition in shadow - CVE-2017-2616
Published: May 5, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU6432
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-2616
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Mark Florian
Affected software:
shadow
shadow
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to race condition within shadow-utils implementation. A local user can kill other processes on the system with root privileges.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-2616
Install update from GIT repository.