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CVE-2023-40303

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.

Published

2023-08-14T05:15:10.233

Last Modified

2024-11-21T08:19:11.747

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.8 (HIGH)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-252

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnu	inetutils	≤ 2.4	Yes

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4 ([email protected])
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/ Product ([email protected])
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6 Patch ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html ([email protected])
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/ Product (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)