CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0378

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-05-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-05-03
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

The pam_console PAM module in Linux systems performs a chown on various devices upon a user login, but an open file descriptor for those devices can be maintained after the user logs out, which allows that user to sniff activity on these devices when subsequent users log in.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 6.0 • redhat linux 6.1 • redhat linux 6.2

References