CVE
- Id
- 1145
- CVE No.
- CVE-1999-1165
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- GNU fingerd 1.37 does not properly drop privileges before accessing user information, which could allow local users to (1) gain root privileges via a malicious program in the .fingerrc file, or (2) read arbitrary files via symbolic links from .plan, .forward, or .project files.
- Phase
- Proposed (20010912)
- Votes
- MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(2) Cole, Foat
- Comments
- Frech> XF:gnu-finger-privilege-dropping(7175)