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pinentry: local privilege escalation

Package(s):

pinentry

CVE #(s):

Created:

January 3, 2006

Updated:

January 4, 2006

Description:

Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has discovered that the pinentry ebuild incorrectly sets the permissions of the pinentry binaries upon installation, so that the sgid bit is set making them execute with the privileges of group ID 0.

Alerts:

Gentoo

200601-01

2006-01-03

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