CVE-1999-1434: Undefined Security Weakness

login in Slackware Linux 3.2 through 3.5 does not properly check for an error when the /etc/group file is missing, which prevents it from dropping privileges, causing it to assign root privileges to any local user who logs on to the server...

Slackware Linux 3.5 - etcgroup Local Privilege Escalation

Slackware Linux 3.5 - etcgroup Local Privilege Escalation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/155/info Due to the way /bin/login behaves when a /etc/group file is not present under Slackware's version of the password shadowing suite, users who log in while this file is not present will be...