A flaw was found in the way the dumpable flag setting was handled when certain SUID binaries executed its descendants. The prerequisite is a SUID binary that sets real UID equal to effective UID, and real GID equal to effective GID. The descendant will then have a dumpable value set to 1. As a result, if the descendant process crashes and core_pattern is set to a relative value, its core dump is stored in the current directory with uid:gid permissions. An unprivileged local user with eligible root SUID binary could use this flaw to place core dumps into root-owned directories, potentially resulting in escalation of privileges.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-27099 A flaw was found in the way the dumpable flag setting was handled when certain SUID binaries executed its descendants. The prerequisite is a SUID binary that sets real UID equal to effective UID, and real GID equal to effective GID. The descendant will then have a dumpable value set to 1. As a result, if the descendant process crashes and core_pattern is set to a relative value, its core dump is stored in the current directory with uid:gid permissions. An unprivileged local user with eligible root SUID binary could use this flaw to place core dumps into root-owned directories, potentially resulting in escalation of privileges.
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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:09:09.586Z

Reserved: 2021-10-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-3864

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-08-26T16:15:09.680

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:22:41.197

Link: CVE-2021-3864

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-10-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3864 - Bugzilla

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