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openSUSE Security Update : shadow (openSUSE-2018-249)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108271

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for shadow fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2018-7169: Fixed an privilege escalation in newgidmap, which allowed an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is allowed. (bsc#1081294)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected shadow packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081294

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108271

File Name: openSUSE-2018-249.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2018

Updated: 2/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-7169

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:shadow-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:shadow-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:shadow

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-7169