Thank you for updating the package in Cauldron.
So it is poised for M8: in which case, are the indicated patches still relevant?

No one packager visible for this, so assigning the M8 update globally.

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Suggested advisory:
========================

The updated package fixes a security vulnerability:

shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees. (CVE-2013-4235)

References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4235
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5745-1
========================

Updated package in core/updates_testing:
========================
shadow-utils-4.6-4.1.mga8

from SRPM:
shadow-utils-4.6-4.1.mga8.src.rpm

CVE: (none) => CVE-2013-423
Status comment: Patches available from upstream and Ubuntu => (none)
Assignee: pkg-bugs => qa-bugs
Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
CC: (none) => nicolas.salguero

Are we affected by the regression that Ubuntu had to fix in this update?
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5745-2

No sign of the regression.

Before and after installing the update, the results of useradd appear to be
the same. After installing the update ...
[root@x3 ~]# ll /home/newid
ls: cannot access '/home/newid': No such file or directory
[root@x3 ~]# useradd newid
[root@x3 ~]# ll /home/newid
total 44
-rw-r--r-- 1 newid newid  387 Dec 15  2020 .bash_completion
-rw-r--r-- 1 newid newid   24 Oct  1 15:13 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 newid newid  208 Oct  1 15:13 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 newid newid  124 Oct  1 15:13 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 newid newid 4096 Jan 12  2013 .gnome2/
drwxr-xr-x 2 newid newid 4096 Nov 21  2020 .italc/
-rw-r--r-- 1 newid newid  172 May  4  2018 .kshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 newid newid 1107 Aug 21  2013 .mkshrc
drwxr-xr-x 4 newid newid 4096 Feb 13  2020 .mozilla/
-rw-r--r-- 1 newid newid 3793 Feb 27  2021 .screenrc
drwx------ 2 newid newid 4096 Feb 11  2020 tmp/
[root@x3 ~]# userdel -r newid
userdel: newid mail spool (/var/spool/mail/newid) not found
[root@x3 ~]# ll /home/newid
ls: cannot access '/home/newid': No such file or directory

We'll need to test this more thoroughly before validating.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

MGA8-64 MATE on Acer Aspire 5253.
Before installing I checked whether this rpm was already installed in a previous version, it wasn't.
Then I read about the contents of this rpm and its commands: I find things there like adduser, pwck etc...
But these exist already on my system in /usr/sbin, adduser being a link to useradd. So if I install this rpm, it will overwrite those existing ones ???? And when I remove the rpm, the commands are gone alltogether ?????

CC: (none) => herman.viaene

There's no way you don't already have this installed.

# urpme --test shadow-utils
Removing the following package will break your system:
  basesystem-minimal-8-0.4.mga8.x86_64
   (due to missing basesystem-minimal-core,
    due to missing makedev,
    due to missing initscripts,
    due to missing cronie,
    due to missing iproute2)

@David
You're right. The checkbox here is a very light grey, I overlooked the flag, indicating it caan't be removed in MCC
Installing new version works OK.
# useradd prutser
# getent passwd {1000..60000}
tester8:x:1000:1000:Tester8:/home/tester8:/bin/bash
prutser:x:1001:1001::/home/prutser:/bin/bash
# usermod -p pruts prutser
# pwck
user 'adm': directory '/var/adm' does not exist
user 'news': directory '/var/spool/news' does not exist
user 'uucp': directory '/var/spool/uucp' does not exist
user 'rpc': directory '/var/lib/rpcbind' does not exist
user 'avahi-autoipd': directory '/var/lib/avahi-autoipd' does not exist
user 'squid': directory '/var/spool/squid' does not exist
pwck: no changes
# userdel prutser
# userdel prutser
# getent passwd {1000..60000}
tester8:x:1000:1000:Tester8:/home/tester8:/bin/bash
All seem to work OK

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK

Validating. Advisory in comment 2.

"We'll need to test this more thoroughly before validating."

Dave Hodgins, if you think even more testing is needed, feel free to remove the validation.

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0455.html

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED