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CVE-2005-0580

cmd5checkpw, when running setuid, does not properly drop privileges before calling the execvp function, which allows local users to read the

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Summary

cmd5checkpw, when running setuid, does not properly drop privileges before calling the execvp function, which allows local users to read the poppasswd file.

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