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shadow-utils: mailbox creation vulnerability

Package(s):shadow-utils CVE #(s):CVE-2006-1174
Created:May 25, 2006 Updated:June 12, 2007
Description: The useradd tool from the shadow-utils package has a potential security problem. When a new user's mailbox is created, the permissions are set to random garbage from the stack, potentially allowing the file to be read or written during the time before fchmod() is called.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0431-01 2007-06-11
rPath rPSA-2007-0096-1 2007-05-11
Red Hat RHSA-2007:0276-02 2007-05-01
Gentoo 200606-02 2006-06-07
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:090 2006-05-24
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