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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 u…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
DebianShadow
through 4.0.7
Versions 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.4, 4.0.4.1

Weakness classification

CWE-264

References