Bug 1616852 (CVE-2002-1160) - CVE-2002-1160 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2002-1160 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2002-1160
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 02:02 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 02:02:56 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 02:02:49 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 17:27:16 UTC 
MITRE description:

The default configuration of the pam_xauth module forwards MIT-Magic-Cookies to new X sessions, which could allow local users to gain root privileges by stealing the cookies from a temporary .xauth file, which is created with the original user's credentials after root uses su.
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