CVE-2002-1509

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Red Hat Linux

First reported 21 years ago

2003-03-03 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-10 19:14:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 7.2

7.2

Red Hat Linux 7.3

7.3

Red Hat Linux 8.0

8.0

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75418

Vendor Advisory

MDKSA-2003:026

RHSA-2003:057

RHSA-2003:058

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