Vulnerability in Trustix Secure Linux

CVE-2000-1009

dump in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.

EPSS: 0.011 (63.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Trustix Secure_linux — versions 1.1
Redhat Linux — versions 6.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)