Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package shadow  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-SHADOW-532604
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed3 Dec 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2013-4235  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-367  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream shadow package and not the shadow package as distributed by Ubuntu.

shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees