View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2017-12424 severity moderate: SUSE including 11 source package names (0.9.1:shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3, 1.0.0:shadow-4.2.1-27.3.3, …), 28 product×package rows across 28 product lines (Container caasp/v4/default-http-backend, Container caasp/v4/dnsmasq-nanny, … (28 product lines)): Fixed 28.
In shadow before 4.5, the newusers tool could be made to manipulate internal data structures in ways unintended by the authors. Malformed input may lead to crashes (with a buffer overflow or other memory corruption) or other unspecified behaviors. This crosses a privilege boundary in, for example, certain web-hosting environments in which a Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.