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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1174: shadow: Privilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-1174: shadow: Privilege escalation

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/28/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

useradd in shadow-utils before 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.0.8, does not provide a required argument to the open function when creating a new user mailbox, which causes the mailbox to be created with unpredictable permissions and possibly allows attackers to read or modify the mailbox.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-apps-shadow

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