fkie_cve-2002-0754
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2002-08-12 04:00
Modified
2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier relies on the getlogin system call to determine if the user running k5su is root, which could allow a root-initiated process to regain its privileges after it has dropped them.
References
cve@mitre.orgftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:07.k5su.ascPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7956.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3919Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:07.k5su.ascPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7956.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3919Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
freebsd heimdal 0.4e
kth heimdal 0.4e
freebsd freebsd 4.0
freebsd freebsd 4.1
freebsd freebsd 4.1.1
freebsd freebsd 4.1.1
freebsd freebsd 4.1.1
freebsd freebsd 4.2
freebsd freebsd 4.2
freebsd freebsd 4.3
freebsd freebsd 4.3
freebsd freebsd 4.3
freebsd freebsd 4.4


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  "lastModified": "2025-04-03T01:03:51.193",
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