Mageia alert MGASA-2018-0177 (shadow-utils)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2018-0177: Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability 
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Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:14:01 +0100
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MGASA-2018-0177 - Updated shadow-utils packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Mar 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0177.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5, 6
CVE: CVE-2018-7169

Description:
Privilege escalation in newgidmap, which allowed an unprivileged user
to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is allowed
(CVE-2018-7169).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22766
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2018-03/msg00...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7169

SRPMS:
- 5/core/shadow-utils-4.2.1-6.2.mga5
- 6/core/shadow-utils-4.4-1.2.mga6