CVEvulnerability
CVE-2003-0690
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-10-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
KDM in KDE 3.1.3 and earlier does not verify whether the pam_setcred function call succeeds, which may allow attackers to gain root privileges by triggering error conditions within PAM modules, as demonstrated in certain configurations of the MIT pam_krb5 module.
Affected configurations
• kde kde 1.1
• kde kde 1.1.1
• kde kde 1.1.2
• kde kde 1.2
• kde kde 2.0
• kde kde 2.0.1
• kde kde 2.0 beta
• kde kde 2.1
• kde kde 2.1.1
• kde kde 2.1.2
• kde kde 2.2
• kde kde 2.2.1
• kde kde 2.2.2
• kde kde 3.0
• kde kde 3.0.1
• kde kde 3.0.2
• kde kde 3.0.3
• kde kde 3.0.3a
• kde kde 3.0.4
• kde kde 3.0.5
• kde kde 3.0.5a
• kde kde 3.0.5b
• kde kde 3.1
• kde kde 3.1.1
• kde kde 3.1.1a
• kde kde 3.1.2
• kde kde 3.1.3
References
- http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/suse/security/2002/12/msg00101.html cert.uni-stuttgart.de
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000747 distro.conectiva.com.br
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106374551513499&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-388 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-443 www.debian.org
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030916-1.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:091 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-270.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-286.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-287.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-288.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-289.html www.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A193 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/suse/security/2002/12/msg00101.html cert.uni-stuttgart.de
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000747 distro.conectiva.com.br
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106374551513499&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-388 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-443 www.debian.org
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20030916-1.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:091 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-270.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-286.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-287.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-288.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-289.html www.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A193 oval.cisecurity.org