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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201710-16">
+  <title>Shadow: Buffer overflow</title>
+  <synopsis>A vulnerability found in Shadow may allow remote attackers to cause
+    a Denial of Service condition or produce other unspecified behaviors.
+  </synopsis>
+  <product type="ebuild">shadow</product>
+  <announced>2017-10-15</announced>
+  <revised count="1">2017-10-15</revised>
+  <bug>627044</bug>
+  <access>remote</access>
+  <affected>
+    <package name="sys-apps/shadow" auto="yes" arch="*">
+      <unaffected range="ge">4.5</unaffected>
+      <vulnerable range="lt">4.5</vulnerable>
+    </package>
+  </affected>
+  <background>
+    <p>Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.</p>
+  </background>
+  <description>
+    <p>Malformed input in the newusers tool may produce crashes and other
+      unspecified behaviors.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <impact type="normal">
+    <p>A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or
+      bypass privilege boundaries in some web-hosting environments in which a
+      Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.
+    </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-4.5"
+    </code>
+  </resolution>
+  <references>
+    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12424">
+      CVE-2017-12424
+    </uri>
+  </references>
+  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-10-13T22:41:20Z">b-man</metadata>
+  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-10-15T20:17:52Z">chrisadr</metadata>
+</glsa>