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  "details": "In shadow before 4.5, the newusers tool could be made to manipulate internal data structures in ways unintended by the authors. Malformed input may lead to crashes (with a buffer overflow or other memory corruption) or other unspecified behaviors. This crosses a privilege boundary in, for example, certain web-hosting environments in which a Control Panel allows an unprivileged user account to create subaccounts.",
  "id": "ALPINE-CVE-2017-12424",
  "modified": "2026-11-03T06:17:55.192086351Z",
  "published": "2017-08-04T09:29:00.187Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-12424"
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-12424"
  ]
}