CVE-2002-0754

2003-04-0205:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

20.8%

JSON

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.

References

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:07.k5su.asc

www.iss.net/security_center/static/7956.php

www.securityfocus.com/bid/3919