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Scientific Linux: Low Severity Mailbox Permissions Issue in Shadow-Utils

Calendar Jun 15, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory shadow-utils low severity mailbox permissions Scientific Linux
Low: shadow-utils security and bug fix update 
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:29:05 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for shadow-utils on SL3,x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Low: shadow-utils security and bug fix update
Issue date:	2007-06-11
CVE Names:	CVE-2006-1174

A flaw was found in the useradd tool in shadow-utils. A new user's
mailbox, when created, could have random permissions for a short period.
This could allow a local attacker to read or modify the mailbox.
(CVE-2006-1174)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
	shadow-utils-4.0.3-29.RHEL3.src.rpm
 i386:
	shadow-utils-4.0.3-29.RHEL3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
	shadow-utils-4.0.3-29.RHEL3.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson