CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-1946

Published: Jul 07, 2011 | Modified: Aug 17, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

gnomesu-pam-backend in libgnomesu 1.0.0 prints an error message but proceeds with the non-error code path upon failure of the setgid or setuid function, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to two unprivileged user accounts, and running many processes under one of these accounts.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libgnomesu Hongli_lai 1.0.0 (including) 1.0.0 (including)
Libgnomesu Ubuntu hardy *

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