Gentoo Pinentry Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:16120

Info

Gentoo Pinentry Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 16120
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 03 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Jan 03 2006 12:00AM
Credit: Discovered by Tavis Ormandy.
Vulnerable: Gentoo Linux
Gentoo app-crypt/pinentry 0.7.2 -r1
Gentoo app-crypt/pinentry 0.7.2
Not Vulnerable: Gentoo app-crypt/pinentry 0.7.2 -r2

Discussion

Gentoo Pinentry Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

pinentry is prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Successful exploitation can allow a pinentry user to read or write arbitrary files with the privileges of group ID 0.

Exploit / POC

Gentoo Pinentry Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

Gentoo Pinentry Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200601-01 and an updated eBuild to address this issue. Users may apply this update by executing the following commands as a superuser:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.2-r2"

References

Gentoo Pinentry Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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