"loolforkit" is a privileged program that is supposed to be run by a special, non-privileged "lool" user. Before doing anything else "loolforkit" checks, if it was invoked by the "lool" user, and refuses to run with privileges, if it's not the case. In the vulnerable version of "loolforkit" this check was wrong, so a normal user could start "loolforkit" and eventually get local root privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Document Fdn.

Published: 2021-02-23T15:33:49.271890Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:14:42.289Z

Reserved: 2021-01-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-25630

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-02-23T16:15:13.253

Modified: 2021-02-27T03:04:30.353

Link: CVE-2021-25630

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