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Gentoo pinentry Insecure Permissions setgid Binaries Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA18284
Release Date: 2006-01-04
Last Update: 2006-08-04
Popularity: 6,802 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Tavis Ormandy has reported a security issue in pinentry, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The problem is that the pinentry ebuild assigns insecure permissions for the pinentry binaries in the installation process. This may be exploited to disclose the content of or manipulate arbitrary files with a group ID of 0.

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