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  
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