CVE-2017-5899

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 27, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Feb 7, 2017

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20170207 Re: CVE Request: s-nail local rootmailing-list
[s-nail-users] 20170127 [ANN]ounce of S-nail v14.8.16 ("Copris lunaris")mailing-list
[oss-security] 20170127 CVE Request: s-nail local rootmailing-list
96138vdb-entry

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