PT-2005-1628
CVE-2005-0580
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Published
2005-02-25
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Updated
2008-09-05
Description by
CVSS 2.0
2.1
LowMetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
cmd5checkpw (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to cmd5checkpw, which does not properly drop privileges when running setuid. This allows local users to read the poppasswd file by exploiting the improper privilege handling before the execvp function is called.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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