CVE-2018-6558

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Aug 23, 2018
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Feb 2, 2018

Description

The pam_fscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM (aka pam).

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
fscryptThe fscrypt Project	before 0.2.4Affected

References

https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/77
https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/3022c1603d968c22f147b4a2c49c4637dd1be91b
https://github.com/google/fscrypt/commit/315f9b042237200174a1fb99427f74027e191d66
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1787548

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