Description
The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.
Published: 2017-09-15
Score: 7.3 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-5987 The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.
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Gentoo Sci-mathematics-gimps
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:27:40.754Z

Reserved: 2017-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-14484

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-09-15T10:29:00.340

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-14484

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