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Red Hat: CVE-2021-3800: Possible privilege escalation thourgh pkexec and aliases (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 9, 2021
Added
Nov 10, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in glib before version 2.63.6. Due to random charset alias, pkexec can leak content from files owned by privileged users to unprivileged ones under the right condition.

Solutions

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