First published: Mon Jul 13 1998(Updated: )
login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Slackware Slackware Linux | =3.5 | |
Slackware Slackware Linux | =3.2 | |
Slackware Slackware Linux | =3.4 | |
Slackware Slackware Linux | =3.1 | |
Slackware Slackware Linux | =3.3 |
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