CVE-2009-0360

EPSS 0.25%

libpam-krb5 - local privilege

Published: 2/13/2009Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0360

Description

Russ Allbery pam-krb5 before 3.13, when linked against MIT Kerberos, does not properly initialize the Kerberos libraries for setuid use, which allows local users to gain privileges by pointing an environment variable to a modified Kerberos configuration file, and then launching a PAM-based setuid application.

Affected packages (2)

References (1)