vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-10151): hesiod vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 1, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIOD_CONFIG or (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID binary.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-hesiod
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