The pam_fscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM (aka pam).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2018-08-23T20:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:06:50.219Z

Reserved: 2018-02-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-6558

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-08-23T19:29:01.127

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

Link: CVE-2018-6558

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