CVE-1999-1434

Published: 1998-07-13

Description

login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server.

Severity

Overall Severity: N/A

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slackware - slackware_linux

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References

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