CVE-2006-4246 Information

Description

Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling an empty shell parameter which results in changing root’s shell instead of the shell of a specified user.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/21968 http://secunia.com/advisories/21981 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1177 http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/usermin http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18574 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3668 http://www.webmin.com/uchanges.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29010