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CVE-2002-1160 (GCVE-0-2002-1160)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:19
VLAI
Summary
The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user's credentials after root uses su.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=f… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
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http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-035.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-028.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6753 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?n… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKE
Date Public
2002-12-14 00:00
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