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CVE-2016-15024: doomsider shadow denial of service

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-02-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-404

Description

A vulnerability was found in doomsider shadow. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to denial of service. Attacking locally is a requirement. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Continious delivery with rolling releases is used by this product. Therefore, no version details of affected nor updated releases are available. The patch is identified as 3332c5ba9ec3014ddc74e2147190a050eee97bc0. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-221478 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products

• doomsider shadow: before 2016-06-09 — fixed in 2016-06-09

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: doomsider shadow 2016-06-09. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/doomsider/shadow/commit/3332c5ba9ec3014ddc74e2147190a050eee97bc0
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.221478
• https://vuldb.com/?id.221478
• https://github.com/doomsider/shadow/commit/3332c5ba9ec3014ddc74e2147190a050eee97bc0
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.221478
• https://vuldb.com/?id.221478

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