vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-20148: Logcheck: Root privilege escalation

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
09/20/2022
Added
09/26/2022
Modified
01/28/2025

Description

In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-admin-logcheck
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