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CVE-2002-0557

by Fred · 11/06/2002

Vulnerability in OpenBSD 3.0, when using YP with netgroups in the password database, causes (1) rexec or (2) rsh to run another user’s shell, or (3) atrun to change to a different user’s directory, possibly due to memory allocation failures or an incorrect call to auth_approval().

Date published : 2002-06-11

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4338

http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#approval

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