high
7.2
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-2000-0229

First published: Wed Mar 22 2000(Updated: )

gpm-root in the gpm package does not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by starting a utility from gpm-root.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
alessandro rubini gpm=1.18.1
alessandro rubini gpm=1.19
Debian Debian Linux=2.0
Debian Debian Linux=2.1
Debian Debian Linux=2.2
Debian Debian Linux=2.2
Red Hat Linux=6.0
Red Hat Linux=6.1
Red Hat Linux=6.2
SUSE Linux=5.3
SUSE Linux=6.0
SUSE Linux=6.1
SUSE Linux=6.2
SUSE Linux=6.3

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