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Conectiva update for pam
Secunia Advisory: SA9233
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Release Date: 2003-07-11
Popularity: 5,875 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Conectiva Linux 8
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CVE reference:CVE-2002-1160
Description:
Conectiva 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:

ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/pam-0.75-5U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/pam-devel-0.75-5U80_1cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8...m-devel-static-0.75-5U80_1cl.i386.rpm

SRPM:
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/pam-0.75-5U80_1cl.src.rpm

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