CVE-2001-1029

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 1, 2004
Updated: Aug 8, 2024
Reserved: Jan 31, 2002

Description

libutil in OpenSSH on FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier does not drop privileges before verifying the capabilities for reading the copyright and welcome files, which allows local users to bypass the capabilities checks and read arbitrary files by specifying alternate copyright or welcome files.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

20010920 Local vulnerability in libutil derived with FreeBSD 4.4-RC (and earlier)mailing-list
6073vdb-entry
bsd-libutil-privilege-dropping(8697)vdb-entry

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