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Bug 1626123 - (CVE-2018-16588) CVE-2018-16588 shadow-utils: useradd-mkdirs.patch creates intermediate directories with 0777
CVE-2018-16588 shadow-utils: useradd-mkdirs.patch creates intermediate direct...
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20180906,reported=2...
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Blocks: 1626180
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Reported: 2018-09-06 11:45 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2018-09-10 20:26 EDT (History)
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-06 11:45:41 EDT
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 02:58:31 EDT
This is NOTABUG - we do not ship such useradd-mkdirs patch.

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