CVE-2003-0388

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2003-06-16
Bugzilla:
1617025: CVE-2003-0388 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

pam_wheel in Linux-PAM 0.78, with the trust option enabled and the use_uid option disabled, allows local users to spoof log entries and gain privileges by causing getlogin() to return a spoofed user name.

Find out more about CVE-2003-0388 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2004:304 2004-08-18

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