FKIE_CVE-2006-1174
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-05-28 23:02 - Updated: 2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
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