Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-27T15:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:11:49.048Z

Reserved: 2017-02-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-5899

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-27T15:59:00.497

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:49:46.540

Link: CVE-2017-5899

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-01-27T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-5899 - Bugzilla