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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202008-09">
+ <title>Shadow: Privilege escalation</title>
+ <synopsis>Multiple Shadow utilities were installed with setuid permissions,
+ allowing possible root privilege escalation.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">shadow</product>
+ <announced>2020-08-25</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2020-08-25</revised>
+ <bug>702252</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/shadow" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.8-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.8-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>When Shadow was installed with the PAM use flag, setuid binaries
+ provided by Shadow were not properly restricted.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.</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-4.8-r3"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19882">CVE-2019-19882</uri>
+ <uri link="https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/pull/199">Upstream
+ mitigation
+ </uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-08-24T00:55:20Z">sam_c</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-08-25T12:51:43Z">sam_c</metadata>
+</glsa>