Security Advisory

CVE-2003-0690

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2003-09-18 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 02:05:12
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

KDM in KDE 3.1.3 and earlier does not verify whether the pam_setcred function call succeeds, which may allow attackers to gain root privileges by triggering error conditions within PAM modules, as demonstrated in certain configurations of the MIT pam_krb5 module.