openSUSE Security Update: Security update for shadow ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:0667-1 Rating: moderate References: #1081294 Cross-References: CVE-2018-7169 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
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.
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 42.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-249=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):
shadow-4.2.1-13.1 shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-13.1 shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-13.1
References:
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7169.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1081294