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Unscored CVE-2002-0754 EUVD-2002-0746GHSA-mggc-5xgm-pg5v

Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier relies on the getlogin system call to determine if the user running k5su is root, which cou…

Published Apr 2, 2003 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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Kerberos 5 su (k5su) in FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier relies on the getlogin system call to determine if the user running k5su is root, which could allow a root-initiated process to regain its privileges after it has dropped them.

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