PT-2005-1628

CVE-2005-0580

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Published

2005-02-25

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Updated

2008-09-05

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CVSS 2.0
2.1
Low
MetricsAV: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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