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CVE-1999-1434

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1998-07-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Slackware Linux: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104525951&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/155
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104525951&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/155

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