CVE-2016-6252

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6252
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6252.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6252
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-02-17T17:59:00.937Z
Modified
2026-04-16T01:38:48.856418967Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Integer overflow in shadow 4.2.1 allows local users to gain privileges via crafted input to newuidmap.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/shadow-maint/shadow

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
578947e6614aae91e2550c83790e79479b951e40
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.2.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:shadow_project:shadow:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.2.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6252.json"