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rmake: privilege escalation

Package(s):rmake CVE #(s):CVE-2007-0536 CVE-2007-0557
Created:January 26, 2007 Updated:January 31, 2007
Description: Rmake prior to version 1.0.3-2-0.1 does not drop supplemental users in the changeroot environment for builds. This provides malicious packages with excess permissions that are configuration-dependent, and may allow local users to run arbitrary code as the root user.
Alerts:
rPath rPSA-2007-0020-2 2007-01-25
rPath rPSA-2007-0020-1 2007-01-25
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