vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-14484: GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 15, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

A local attacker who does not belong to the root group, but has the
ability to modify the /var/lib/gimps directory can escalate privileges to
the root group.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sci-mathematics-gimps
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