CVE-2021-31523

Summary

CVE	CVE-2021-31523
State	PUBLIC
Assigner	[email protected]
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2021-04-21 19:15:00 UTC
Updated	2021-04-29 13:52:00 UTC
Description	The Debian xscreensaver 5.42+dfsg1-1 package for XScreenSaver has cap_net_raw enabled for the /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/sonar file, which allows local users to gain privileges because this is arguably incompatible with the design of the Mesa 3D Graphics library dependency.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Xscreensaver Project	Xscreensaver	5.42\+dfsg1-1	All	All	All

References

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
oss-security - Re: xscreensaver package caps gets raw socket	MLIST	www.openwall.com
oss-security - xscreensaver package caps gets raw socket	MISC	www.openwall.com
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.

Legacy QID Mappings

179440 Debian Security Update for xscreensaver (CVE-2021-31523)