Security Advisory SA9381 - Sun Linux update for PAM

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Secunia Advisory SA9381

Sun Linux update for PAM

Secunia Advisory

SA9381

Release Date

2003-07-29

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Operating System

Sun Linux 5.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2002-1160 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Sun has issued updated packages for pam, which fix a problem with "pam_xauth" cookies.

The problem is that if the user "root" su to a less privileged user, then root's xauth cookies is forwarded by pam. The less privileged user could then steal the xauth cookie and connect to the X server as user "root".

Solution
Updated packages:
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