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CVE-2002-1509

Severity Low
Score 3.6/10

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published