CVE-2006-1174 Information

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.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc http://cvs.pld.org.pl/shadow/NEWS?rev=1.109 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20370 http://secunia.com/advisories/20506 http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 http://secunia.com/advisories/25267 http://secunia.com/advisories/25629 http://secunia.com/advisories/25894 http://secunia.com/advisories/25896 http://secunia.com/advisories/26909 http://secunia.com/advisories/27706 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-249.htm http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-02.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312692 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:090 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0276.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0431.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468336/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18111 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018221 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2006 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26958 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1357 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10807