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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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
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-03-27T15:59:00.497
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:28:37.963
Link: CVE-2017-5899
Redhat