CVE-2013-4342

Severity

76%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

165%

xinetd does not enforce the user and group configuration directives for TCPMUX services, which causes these services to be run as root and makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging another vulnerability in a service.

xinetd does not enforce the user and group configuration directives for TCPMUX services, which causes these services to be run as root and makes it easier for remote attackers to gain privileges by leveraging another vulnerability in a service.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-10-10 00:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-22 17:48:00

Affected Software

Xinetd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

5

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

References

RHSA-2013:1409

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1006100

Exploit, Patch

https://github.com/xinetd-org/xinetd/pull/10

GLSA-201611-06

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