Vulnerability in Alessandro Rubini Gpm
CVE-2000-0229
gpm-root in the gpm package does not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by starting a utility from gpm-root.
EPSS: 0.008 (53.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Alessandro_rubini Gpm — versions 1.18.1, 1.19
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
- Redhat Linux — versions 6.0, 6.1, 6.2
- Suse Suse_linux — versions 5.3, 6.0, 6.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)