CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0754

7.2 HIGH Published 2002-08-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-08-12
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

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.

Affected configurations

• freebsd heimdal 0.4e • kth heimdal 0.4e • freebsd freebsd 4.0 • freebsd freebsd 4.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.1.1 • freebsd freebsd 4.2 • freebsd freebsd 4.3 • freebsd freebsd 4.4

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