Vulnerability in Freebsd
CVE-2002-0754
Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier relies on the getlogin system call to determine if the user running k5su is root, which could allow a root-initiated process to regain its privileges after it has dropped them.
EPSS: 0.004 (31.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Freebsd — versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.1
- Freebsd Heimdal — versions 0.4e
- Kth Heimdal — versions 0.4e
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)