CVE-1999-1434

High CVSS 7.2

Published 1998-07-13 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1434, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1434

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C