CVE-2018-16588

Privilege escalation can occur in the SUSE useradd.c code in useradd, as distributed in the SUSE shadow package through 4.2.1-27.9.1 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SLE-12 and through 4.5-5.39 for SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SLE-15. Non-existing intermediate directories are created with mode 0777 durin...