CVE-2016-5759 (GCVE-0-2016-5759)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-08 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:15
VLAI
Summary
The mkdumprd script called "dracut" in the current working directory "." allows local users to trick the administrator into executing code as root.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-upda… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2016-10-17 00:00
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