CVE-2023-40303
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 14, 2023
- Updated
- Aug 2, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 14, 2023
Description
GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of set*id() family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary user control the activities of the process.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/
- [debian-lts-announce] 20231008 [SECURITY] [DLA 3611-1] inetutils security updatemailing-list
- [oss-security] 20231230 Re: inetutils ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, uucpd: Avoid potential privilege escalations by checking set*id() return valuesmailing-list
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