Bug 1626123 (CVE-2018-16588)

Summary: CVE-2018-16588 shadow-utils: useradd-mkdirs.patch creates intermediate directories with 0777
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abhgupta, bmcclain, dbaker, dblechte, dfediuck, eedri, jokerman, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, pkis, sbonazzo, sherold, sthangav, tmraz, trankin, ylavi
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-06 15:45:41 UTC 
Shadow's useradd code adds via useradd-mkdirs.patch leads to intermediate directories to be created with mode 0777.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106914
Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2018-09-07 06:58:31 UTC 
This is NOTABUG - we do not ship such useradd-mkdirs patch.