CVE-2006-1174

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...

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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...

CVE-2006-1174

CVE-2006-1174 affects the shadow-utils package, specifically the useradd tool. The issue arises when creating a new user mailbox: the open function is not given the correct arguments, causing the mailbox to be created with unpredictable permissions. As a result, a local attacker could potentially...

CVE-2006-1174

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...

CVE-2006-1174

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...

CVE-2006-1174

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...

CVE-2006-1174: Undefined Security Weakness

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...

MDKSA-2006:090 : shadow-utils

A potential security problem was found in the useradd tool when it creates a new user's mailbox due to a missing argument to the open call, resulting in the first permissions of the file being some random garbage found on the stack, which could possibly be held open for reading or writing before...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : shadow-utils (MDKSA-2004:126)

A vulnerability in the shadow suite was discovered by Martin Schulze that can be exploited by local users to bypass certain security restrictions due to an input validation error in the passwdcheck function. This function is used by the chfn and chsh tools. The updated packages have been patched ...

CVE-2002-1509

CVE-2002-1509 concerns a bug in the shadow-utils useradd flow introduced by a patch in shadow-utils-20000902. The bug causes a new user’s mail spool to be created with group write/read permissions (mode 660) instead of being owned per the intended policy, enabling other users sharing the same pri...

CVE-2002-1509

A patch for shadow-utils 20000902 causes the useradd command to create a mail spool files with read/write privileges of the new user's group mode 660, which allows other users in the same group to read or modify the new user's incoming email...

CVE-2002-1509: Undefined Security Weakness

A patch for shadow-utils 20000902 causes the useradd command to create a mail spool files with read/write privileges of the new user's group mode 660, which allows other users in the same group to read or modify the new user's incoming email...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : shadow-utils (MDKSA-2003:026)

The shadow-utils package contains the tool useradd, which is used to create or update new user information. When useradd creates an account, it would create it with improper permissions; instead of having it owned by the group mail, it would be owned by the user's primary group. If this is a shar...

RHEL 2.1 : shadow-utils (RHSA-2003:058)

Updated shadow-utils packages are now available. These updated packages correct a bug that caused the useradd tool to create mail spools with incorrect permissions. The shadow-utils package includes programs for converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus programs for...

CVE-2002-1509

A patch for shadow-utils 20000902 causes the useradd command to create a mail spool files with read/write privileges of the new user's group mode 660, which allows other users in the same group to read or modify the new user's incoming email...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: shadow-utils security update

Updated shadow-utils packages are now available. These updated packages correct a bug that caused the useradd tool to create mail spools with incorrect permissions. The shadow-utils package includes programs for converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus programs for...

[RHSA-2003:057-06] Updated shadow-utils packages fix exposure

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated shadow-utils packages fix exposure Advisory ID: RHSA-2003:057-06 Issue date: 2003-02-12 Updated on: 2003-02-18 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: mail mailspool Cross...

Red Hat shadow utils unauthorized mail access

User's mailbox created with adduser has rw permissions for primary group...

shadow-utils useradd creates temporary files insecurely

Overview Shadow-utils is an encryption and account management package freely distributed for many Linux implementations. The useradd program in this package creates insecure temporary files with predictable names in a write-protected directory. If this directory is changed to be writable, an...

CVE-2001-0120

CVE-2001-0120 relates to the shadow-utils package, specifically the useradd component. The vulnerability arises from insecure temporary file handling: useradd creates temporary files in /etc/default with predictable names. If /etc/default is world-writable, an attacker could perform a symbolic-li...