Vulnerability in Redhat Linux

CVE-2000-0378

The pam_console PAM module in Linux systems performs a chown on various devices upon a user login, but an open file descriptor for those devices can be maintained after the user logs out, which allows that user to sniff activity on these devices when subsequent users log in.

EPSS: 0.011 (61.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

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