CVE-2006-1174

NameCVE-2006-1174
Descriptionuseradd 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
shadow (PTS)bullseye1:4.8.1-1fixed
bookworm1:4.13+dfsg1-1fixed
sid, trixie1:4.16.0-5fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
shadowsourcesarge(not affected)
shadowsource(unstable)1:4.0.15-10low

Notes

[sarge] - shadow <not-affected> (Vulnerable code was introduced later)

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