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Red Hat: CVE-2020-24330: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-24330: fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/13/2020
Created
05/21/2021
Added
05/21/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of by the tss user, it fails to drop the root gid privilege when no longer needed.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-trousers
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-lib
  • redhat-upgrade-trousers-lib-debuginfo

References

  • CVE-2020-24330
  • RHSA-2021:1627

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