CVE-2002-0754

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

FreeBSD

First reported 22 years ago

2002-08-12 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:28:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD Heimdal Port 0.4e

0.4e

FreeBSD 4.0

4.0

FreeBSD 4.1

4.1

FreeBSD 4.1.1

4.1.1

FreeBSD 4.2

4.2

FreeBSD 4.3

4.3

FreeBSD 4.4

4.4

References

FreeBSD-SA-02:07

Patch, Vendor Advisory

kerberos5-k5su-elevate-privileges(7956)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

3919

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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