CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0873

Published: Dec 21, 2001 | Modified: Oct 10, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

uuxqt in Taylor UUCP package does not properly remove dangerous long options, which allows local users to gain privileges by calling uux and specifying an alternate configuration file with the –config option.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Taylor_uucp Ian_lance_taylor 1.0.6 (including) 1.0.6 (including)

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