CVE-2023-40303
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-14 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 18:31
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4
cve@mitre.orghttps://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/Product
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/Product
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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