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2020-08-13
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.
Products | Fedora, Trousers |
Type | Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) |
First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
Patches | https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q2/att-135/tcsd_fixes.patch |
Links |
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SSDL7COIFCZQMUBNAASNMKMX7W5JUHRD/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/14/1 • https://sourceforge.net/p/trousers/mailman/message/37015817/ • https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164472 |