CVE-2003-0690

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2003-09-16
Bugzilla:
1617067: CVE-2003-0690 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

KDM in KDE 3.1.3 and earlier does not verify whether the pam_setcred function call succeeds, which may allow attackers to gain root privileges by triggering error conditions within PAM modules, as demonstrated in certain configurations of the MIT pam_krb5 module.

Find out more about CVE-2003-0690 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RHSA-2003:269 2003-09-16
Red Hat Linux 8.0 RHSA-2003:287 2003-11-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2003:289 2003-11-12
Red Hat Linux 8.0 RHSA-2003:269 2003-09-16
Red Hat Linux 7.2 RHSA-2003:286 2003-11-25
Red Hat Linux 7.2 RHSA-2003:269 2003-09-16
Red Hat Linux 7.3 RHSA-2003:269 2003-09-16
Red Hat Linux 9 RHSA-2003:288 2003-11-17
Red Hat Linux 7.3 RHSA-2003:287 2003-11-25
Red Hat Linux 9 RHSA-2003:269 2003-09-16
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RHSA-2003:286 2003-11-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2003:270 2003-09-16

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