CVE-2002-1509

Public Date:
2002-10-08
Bugzilla:
1616919: CVE-2002-1509 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

A patch for shadow-utils 20000902 causes the useradd command to create a mail spool files with read/write privileges of the new user's group (mode 660), which allows other users in the same group to read or modify the new user's incoming email.

Find out more about CVE-2002-1509 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 7.3 RHSA-2003:057 2003-02-20
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2003:058 2003-02-25
Red Hat Linux 7.2 RHSA-2003:057 2003-02-20
Red Hat Linux 8.0 RHSA-2003:057 2003-02-20

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