CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0557
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
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().
Affected configurations
• openbsd openbsd 3.0
References
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8625.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#approval www.openbsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4338 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8625.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#approval www.openbsd.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4338 Patch, Vendor Advisory