CVE-2006-1174

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2005-02-23
Bugzilla:
1618029: CVE-2006-1174 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2006-1174 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193053
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229194

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/

The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (shadow-utils) RHSA-2007:0276 2007-05-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (shadow-utils) RHSA-2007:0431 2007-06-07

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