CVE-2003-0690

Concretely, CVE-2003-0690 affects KDE kdebase (KDM in KDE 3.1.3 and earlier). The flaw is that kdebase does not verify whether pam_setcred succeeds, which can allow a root privilege escalation under certain PAM module configurations (notably MIT pam_krb5). Public sources in connected docs referen...

CVE-2003-0690

KDM in KDE 3.1.3 and earlier does not verify whether the pamsetcred 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 pamkrb5 module...