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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: certcc
Published: 2006-05-28T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T17:03:28.515Z
Reserved: 2006-03-12T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-1174
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2006-05-28T23:02:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-21T00:08:14.673
Link: CVE-2006-1174
Redhat