debian · CVE-2003-0388

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:50:59 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2003-0388 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (pam), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

pam_wheel in Linux-PAM 0.78, with the trust option enabled and the use_uid option disabled, allows local users to spoof log entries and gain privileges by causing getlogin() to return a spoofed user name.

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