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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201706-02">
+ <title>Shadow: Multiple vulnerabilities </title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Shadow, the worst of
+ which might allow privilege escalation.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">shadow</product>
+ <announced>2017-06-06</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2017-06-06</revised>
+ <bug>610804</bug>
+ <bug>620510</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/shadow" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.4-r2</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.4-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Shadow. Please review
+ the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition,
+ gain privileges via crafted input, or SIGKILL arbitrary processes.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All Shadow users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/shadow-4.4-r2"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-6252">CVE-2016-6252</uri>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2616">CVE-2017-2616</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-03-07T23:12:11Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-06-06T06:29:12Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>