ubuntu · CVE-2016-6252

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6252 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (shadow), 7 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 4, ignored 2, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Integer overflow in shadow 4.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted input to newuidmap.