CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-0580

Published: Feb 25, 2005 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-0580
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

cmd5checkpw, when running setuid, does not properly drop privileges before calling the execvp function, which allows local users to read the poppasswd file.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Cmd5checkpw	Krzysztof_dabrowski	0.20 (including)	0.20 (including)
Cmd5checkpw	Krzysztof_dabrowski	0.21 (including)	0.21 (including)
Cmd5checkpw	Krzysztof_dabrowski	0.22 (including)	0.22 (including)

References

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200502-30.xml

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