Bug 1626123 (CVE-2018-16588) - CVE-2018-16588 shadow-utils: useradd-mkdirs.patch creates intermediate directories with 0777
Summary: CVE-2018-16588 shadow-utils: useradd-mkdirs.patch creates intermediate direct...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-16588
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1626180
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Reported: 2018-09-06 15:45 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-09-11 00:26:10 UTC
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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.
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