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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4246
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CVE-2006-4246

Description:
Usermin before 1.220 (20060629) allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, possibly related to chfn/save.cgi not properly handling an empty shell parameter, which results in changing root's shell instead of the shell of a specified user.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29010

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA21968
  Secunia Advisory: SA21981

MISC
  http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/admin/usermin

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1177

CONFIRM
  http://www.webmin.com/uchanges.html
  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1509145&group_id=17457&atid=485894

BID
  18574


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