CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1276

Published: Dec 07, 1998 | Modified: Oct 10, 2017

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1276
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

fte-console in the fte package before 0.46b-4.1 does not drop root privileges, which allows local users to gain root access via the virtual console device.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Debian_linux	Debian	2.1 (including)	2.1 (including)
Linux_kernel	Linux	2.6.20.1 (including)	2.6.20.1 (including)

References

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