Security Advisory

CVE-2004-2388

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-08-16 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 01:22:13
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

rexecd for AIX 4.3.3 does not properly use a local copy of the pwd structure when calling getpwnam, which may cause the structure to be overwritten by the authenticate function and assign privileges to the wrong user.