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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:2885-1 Moderate: Useradd Security Fix

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
In response to CVE-2021-34527, Ubuntu has released a patch to improve the functionality of systemd and strengthen overall protection.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for shadow fixes the following security issue:

- CVE-2018-16588: Prevent useradd from creating intermediate directories

with mode 0777 (bsc#1106914)

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity system protection openSUSE shadow issue useradd fix

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1055=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

shadow-4.2.1-20.1

shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-20.1

shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-20.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16588.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106914

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2885-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update moderate severity system protection openSUSE shadow issue useradd fix

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