Description
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.
References
- 3919 vdb-entry
- kerberos5-k5su-elevate-privileges(7956) vdb-entry