Support / Security / Advisories / Mandrakelinux 6.0 / MDKSA-2001:007

Package name: shadow-utils
Date: 2001-01-10
Advisory ID: MDKSA-2001:007
Affected versions: 6.1 i586 , 6.0 i586 , 7.0 i586 , 7.1 i586 , 7.2 i586

Problem description

WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the useradd program contained in the shadow-utils package. The useradd program creates it's temporary files in the protected directory /etc/default, but if this directory is changed to world writable, a problem could occur. This update corrects the problem.

Updated packages

6.1 i586

 bcb7fda83dc076caa7bb4b89b3c87cc9  6.1/RPMS/shadow-utils-980403-7.1mdk.i586.rpm
31bd9d8cb7358ab147df02f7fd49365a  6.1/SRPMS/shadow-utils-980403-7.1mdk.src.rpm

6.0 i586

 c8eeb7167bcdeff6e204c46d3adabb43  6.0/RPMS/shadow-utils-980403-7.1mdk.i586.rpm
31bd9d8cb7358ab147df02f7fd49365a  6.0/SRPMS/shadow-utils-980403-7.1mdk.src.rpm

7.0 i586

 1a5a4e7b7c1dffe8a3dbdee8a2302da8  7.0/RPMS/shadow-utils-19990827-4.1mdk.i586.rpm
aefcce82330b0add83a3583aa0943cb4  7.0/SRPMS/shadow-utils-19990827-4.1mdk.src.rpm

7.1 i586

 2b09ae303792a3806ccd0d5598319b3b  7.1/RPMS/shadow-utils-19990827-4.1mdk.i586.rpm
aefcce82330b0add83a3583aa0943cb4  7.1/SRPMS/shadow-utils-19990827-4.1mdk.src.rpm

7.2 i586

 416d563bbbbbb4d81b02efa79331aa3e  7.2/RPMS/shadow-utils-19990827-8.1mdk.i586.rpm
3c9f388210b48dfdeb4eb1ec3dba5146  7.2/SRPMS/shadow-utils-19990827-8.1mdk.src.rpm