fkie_cve-2002-1509
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2003-03-03 05:00
Modified
2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75418Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:026
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-057.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-058.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75418Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:026
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-057.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-058.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat linux 7.2
redhat linux 7.2
redhat linux 7.3
redhat linux 8.0


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