Vulnerability in Sun Solaris

CVE-2000-0118

The Red Hat Linux su program does not log failed password guesses if the su process is killed before it times out, which allows local attackers to conduct brute force password guessing.

EPSS: 0.008 (52.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sun Solaris — versions 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 2.4
Sun Sunos — versions 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 5.0
Redhat Linux — versions 2.0, 2.1, 3.0.3
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)