CVE

Id
5547  
CVE No.
CVE-2002-1160  
Status
Entry  
Description
The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user"s credentials after root uses su.  
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