Vulnerability in SUSE Linux

CVE-2002-0762

shadow package in SuSE 8.0 allows local users to destroy the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files or assign extra group privileges to some users by changing filesize limits before calling programs that modify the files.

EPSS: 0.004 (29.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Suse Suse_linux — versions 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)