cve-2021-3864
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-26 15:25
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in the way the dumpable flag setting was handled when certain SUID binaries executed its descendants. The prerequisite is a SUID binary that sets real UID equal to effective UID, and real GID equal to effective GID. The descendant will then have a dumpable value set to 1. As a result, if the descendant process crashes and core_pattern is set to a relative value, its core dump is stored in the current directory with uid:gid permissions. An unprivileged local user with eligible root SUID binary could use this flaw to place core dumps into root-owned directories, potentially resulting in escalation of privileges.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3864Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2015046Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/20211221021744.864115-1-longman%40redhat.com/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/20211226150310.GA992%401wt.eu/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211228170910.623156-1-wander%40redhat.com/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3864Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/10/20/2Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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n/akernel
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