Description
GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of set*id() family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary user control the activities of the process.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6 ↗
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html ↗
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/ ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00013.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/30/4 ↗