Vulnerability in Slackware Linux

CVE-1999-0421

During a reboot after an installation of Linux Slackware 3.6, a remote attacker can obtain root access by logging in to the root account without a password.

EPSS: 0.016 (72.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Slackware Slackware_linux — versions 3.6
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)