CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1472

7.2 HIGH Published 2003-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-03-03
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

Untrusted search path vulnerability in libX11.so in xfree86, when used in setuid or setgid programs, allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified LD_PRELOAD environment variable that points to a malicious module.

Affected configurations

• xfree86 project x11r6 4.1.0 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.2.0

References