CVE-2006-1174

Name	CVE-2006-1174
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.
Source	CVE (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 Package	Release	Version	Status
shadow (PTS)	buster	1:4.5-1.1	fixed
	bullseye	1:4.8.1-1	fixed
	bookworm	1:4.13+dfsg1-1	fixed
	sid, trixie	1:4.13+dfsg1-4	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
shadow	source	sarge	(not affected)
shadow	source	(unstable)	1:4.0.15-10	low

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