CVE-2002-0557 Information

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().

Reference

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8625.php http://www.openbsd.org/errata30.htmlapproval http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4338