CVE-2002-0557
N/A
Published: June 11, 2002 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:57 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
Vulnerability in OpenBSD 3.0, when using YP with netgroups in the password database, causes (1) rexec or (2) rsh to run another user's shell, or (3) atrun to change to a different user's directory, possibly due to memory allocation failures or an incorrect call to auth_approval().
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (3)
VDB Entryx_refsource_XFPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8625.phpVendor Advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSD
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.html#approvalVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4338Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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