PT-2002-1775 · Mit+1 · Kerberos 5+1

Published 2002-08-12 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2002-0754

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD versions 4.4 and earlier

Description The issue concerns Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD, which relies on the getlogin system call to determine if the user running k5su is root. This could allow a root-initiated process to regain its privileges after it has dropped them.

Recommendations For FreeBSD versions 4.4 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-0754

Affected Products

Freebsd

Kerberos 5

References · 4

• ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:07.k5su.asc · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/3919 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0754 · Security Note
• http://iss.net/security_center/static/7956.php · Vendor Advisory