Bug 1616650 (CVE-2001-1175) - CVE-2001-1175 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2001-1175 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2001-1175
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 01:26 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 01:26:48 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 01:26:41 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 17:13:12 UTC 
MITRE description:

vipw in the util-linux package before 2.10 causes /etc/shadow to be world-readable in some cases, which would make it easier for local users to perform brute force password guessing.
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