CVE

Id
2692  
CVE No.
CVE-2000-1125  
Status
Candidate  
Description
restore 0.4b15 and earlier in Red Hat Linux 6.2 trusts the pathname specified by the RSH environmental variable, which allows local users to obtain root privileges by modifying the RSH variable to point to a Trojan horse program.  
Phase
Proposed (20001219)  
Votes
ACCEPT(2) Baker, Cole | MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(2) Christey, Wall  
Comments
Frech> XF:restore-rsh-executable(5483) | Christey> CERT-VN:VU#960877 | URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/960877