[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1103832: Bug#1103832: Bug#1103832: shadow: CVE-2024-56433

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Chris, hi Serge,

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 09:46:14PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Serge E. Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com> [250422 15:48]:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 08:08:50PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > Thought this will not really be fixable in code, it depends on how
> > > uids were assigned in within a group of systems form system
> > > administrators. Let's link downstream bugreport and upstream and maybe
> > > they come up with a documentation update reflecting the issue?
> > > 
> > > For further information see:
> > > 
> > > [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-56433
> > >     https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56433
> > > [1] https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/issues/1157
> > 
> > There is no id range that couldn't possibly conflict with some
> > site's network ids.  The only default safe for that concern is
> > to not automatically enable any subids.
> 
> Indeed. The question really is: what are we gonna do?
> 
> Should there be some form of documentation update, like a README?
> 
> What else would be "sufficient" to close this topic?

Sorry I seem to not have been clear when filling the bugreport. Yes I
do understand the problem, and was pursuading/checking if it might be
worth/sufficient having it documented in upstream. Or what else we
should do.

Hope I explained now in a more sensible way. Thanks Chris.

Regards,
Salvatore