CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1434

7.2 HIGH Published 1998-07-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-07-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server.

Affected configurations

• slackware slackware linux 3.1 • slackware slackware linux 3.2 • slackware slackware linux 3.3 • slackware slackware linux 3.4 • slackware slackware linux 3.5

References