CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0361

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2009-02-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-02-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

Russ Allbery pam-krb5 before 3.13, as used by libpam-heimdal, su in Solaris 10, and other software, does not properly handle calls to pam_setcred when running setuid, which allows local users to overwrite and change the ownership of arbitrary files by setting the KRB5CCNAME environment variable, and then launching a setuid application that performs certain pam_setcred operations.

Affected configurations

• eyrie pam-krb5 (<= 3.12) • eyrie pam-krb5 3.0 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.1 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.2 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.3 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.4 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.5 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.6 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.7 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.8 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.9 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.10 • eyrie pam-krb5 3.11

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References