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

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 05:04:22PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Maybe debian changelog?

Or maybe simply add a note in the existing README.Debian?

Cheers,
        Moritz