Debian/shadow: unknown

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

Action: Upgrade shadow to 1:4.0.15-10 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: DEBIAN-CVE-2006-1174#Debian:14/shadow
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2006-1174

published 2006-05-28T23:02:00Z · modified 2026-10-22T23:47:33.074102419Z · JSON