CVE-2000-0393 (GCVE-0-2000-0393)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2000-07-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 05:14
VLAI
Summary
The KDE kscd program does not drop privileges when executing a program specified in a user's SHELL environmental variable, which allows the user to gain privileges by specifying an alternate program to execute.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/s… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1206 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2000-05-16 00:00
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