[Pkg-shadow-devel] [oss-security] Re: subuid security patches for shadow package

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Thu Jul 21 20:21:59 UTC 2016


Hi,

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:48:52PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The first point looks like a non issue to me.
> 
> getlogin() is used to differentiate users with the same UID.
> The result of getlogin() is checked: if it returns a username that do not
> have the UID returned by getuid(), it will be ignored.

@MITRE CVE assignment team: This is for CVE-2016-6251. See above and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358622#c2 . 

Should this CVE be REJECTED?

Regards,
Salvatore



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