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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:26:28.671Z

Reserved: 2003-02-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-1509

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2003-03-03T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-1509

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Publid Date: 2002-10-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2002-1509 - Bugzilla

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