An issue was discovered in shadow 4.5. newgidmap (in shadow-utils) is setuid and allows an unprivileged user to be placed in a user namespace where setgroups(2) is permitted. This allows an attacker to remove themselves from a supplementary group, which may allow access to certain filesystem paths if the administrator has used group blacklisting (e.g., chmod g-rwx) to restrict access to paths. This flaw effectively reverts a security feature in the kernel (in particular, the /proc/self/setgroups knob) to prevent this sort of privilege escalation.
Find out more about CVE-2018-7169 from the MITRE-CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
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| Product Name | Status | Defect | Fixed | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | ||||
| Wind River Linux LTS 17 | Fixed |
LIN10-3341 |
10.17.41.5 |
Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.5 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.6 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.7 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.8 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.9 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.10 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.11 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.12 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.13 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.14 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.15 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.16 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.17 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.18 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.20 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.21 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.22 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.23 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.24 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.25 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.26 Wind River Linux LTS 10.17.41.27 |
| Wind River Linux 8 | Fixed |
LIN8-8737 |
8.0.0.26 | -- |
| Wind River Linux 9 | Fixed |
LIN9-6404 |
9.0.0.15 | -- |
| Wind River Linux 7 | Fixed | -- | 7.0.0.29 | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 21 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 22 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 18 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 19 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux CD release | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux 6 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind River Linux LTS 23 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| VxWorks | ||||
| VxWorks 7 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| VxWorks 6.9 | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | ||||
| Helix Virtualization Platform Cert Edition | Not Vulnerable | -- | -- | -- |
| Product Name | Status | Defect | Fixed | Downloads |
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