USN-3276-2: shadow regression

17 May 2017

USN-3276-1 introduced a regression in su.

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USN-3276-1 intended to fix a vulnerability in su. The solution introduced
a regression in su signal handling. This update modifies the security fix.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities.
A local attacker could possibly cause them to crash or potentially
gain privileges via crafted input. (CVE-2016-6252)

Tobias Stöckmann discovered a race condition in su. A local
attacker could cause su to send SIGKILL to other processes with
root privileges. (CVE-2017-2616)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 16.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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