debian · CVE-2006-1174

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:50:59 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2006-1174 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (shadow), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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.

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