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.
- Phase
- Votes
- Comments