CVE-2000-0668 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0668?

CVE-2000-0668 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Conectiva Linux, published on 13 Oct 2000. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

pam_console PAM module in Linux systems allows a user to access the system console and reboot the system when a display manager such as gdm or kdm has XDMCP enabled.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0668?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Conectiva Linux, Michael K. Johnson Pam Console, Redhat Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0668?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0668 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2000-0668 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2000-0668 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Conectiva Linux

• CVE-2005-3625 Denial of service in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0882 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0902 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0903 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0904 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 10.0

All Conectiva Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-h362-xvf2-9x75.