CVE-2006-1174

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CVE-2006-1174

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CVE-2006-1174 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	3.7
Vector	AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 176716 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:54:15 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Sep 11 17:10:08 2024