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CVE-2002-0754

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-init…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
FreebsdHeimdal
Version 0.4e
KthHeimdal
Version 0.4e
FreebsdFreebsd
Versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

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