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CVE-2017-14484
Published: Sep 15, 2017
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603408
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