EDB-19122

functional

Slackware Linux 3.5 - '/etc/group' Local Privilege Escalation

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Richard Thomaspublished 1998-07-13catalog exploit_db
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Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-1999-1434UShigh7.2Exploit
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…
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