CVE-2009-0360

Published Feb 13, 2009

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
Russ Allbery pam-krb5 before 3.13, when linked against MIT Kerberos, does not properly initialize the Kerberos libraries for setuid use, which allows local users to gain privileges by pointing an environment variable to a modified Kerberos configuration file, and then launching a PAM-based setuid application.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.2
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
1.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-287

Evaluator

Comment
Per vendor advisory: http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pam-krb5/security/2009-02-11.html "This advisory is only for my pam-krb5 module, as distributed from my web site and packaged by Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo."
Impact
-
Solution
-

Vendor comments

  • Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the pam_krb5 package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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