CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0762
7.2 HIGH
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- 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
shadow package in SuSE 8.0 allows local users to destroy the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files or assign extra group privileges to some users by changing filesize limits before calling programs that modify the files.
Affected configurations
• suse suse linux 8.0
References
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9102.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_17_shadow.html www.novell.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4757 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9102.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_17_shadow.html www.novell.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4757 Patch, Vendor Advisory