CVE
- Id
- 1414
- CVE No.
- CVE-1999-1434
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- 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 root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server.
- Phase
- Proposed (20010912)
- Votes
- NOOP(3) Cole, Foat, Wall
- Comments