Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-14484: GIMPS: Root privilege escalation
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(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
09/15/2017
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
12/01/2017
Description
The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-sci-mathematics-gimps
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