CVE-2003-0388

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 18, 2003
Updated: Aug 8, 2024
Reserved: Jun 9, 2003

Description

pam_wheel in Linux-PAM 0.78, with the trust option enabled and the use_uid option disabled, allows local users to spoof log entries and gain privileges by causing getlogin() to return a spoofed user name.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.idefense.com/advisory/06.16.03.txt
20030616 FW: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 06.16.03: Linux-PAM getlogin() Spoofingmailing-list
RHSA-2004:304vendor-advisory

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