Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-0476: chkrootkit: Local privilege escalation
4
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
10/25/2014
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
05/09/2019
Description
The slapper function in chkrootkit before 0.50 does not properly quote file paths, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse executable. NOTE: this is only a vulnerability when /tmp is not mounted with the noexec option.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-forensics-chkrootkit
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