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CVE Reference: CVE-2002-1160
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2002-1160
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Description:
The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user's credentials after root uses su.
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CVE Status:
Entry
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References:
XF
SUNALERT
REDHAT
MANDRAKE
CONECTIVA
CERT-VN
911505
BUGTRAQ
BID
6753
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