Shadow: TOCTOU Race

Background Shadow contains utilities to deal with user accounts Description A TOCTOU race condition was discovered in shadow. A local attacker with write privileges in a directory removed or copied by usermod/userdel could potentially exploit this flaw when the administrator invokes...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200411-09 (shadow)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200411-09. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...