CVE-2017-14484
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 15, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 15, 2017
Description
The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
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