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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-15T10:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-14484

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

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

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-14484

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