CVE-2002-0557

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Vulnerability in OpenBSD 3.0, when using YP with netgroups in the password database, causes (1) rexec or (2) rsh to run another user's shell, or (3) atrun to change to a different user's directory, possibly due to memory allocation failures or an incorrect call to auth_approval().

Vulnerability in OpenBSD 3.0, when using YP with netgroups in the password database, causes (1) rexec or (2) rsh to run another user's shell, or (3) atrun to change to a different user's directory, possibly due to memory allocation failures or an incorrect call to auth_approval().

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 22 years ago

2002-07-03 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:28:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD 3.0

3.0

References

bsd-yp-execute-shell(8625)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20020319 016: SECURITY FIX: March 19, 2002

4338

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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