CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-2611

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2004-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The Change Permissions function in the Sophster suite before 0.9.6 28 May 2004 (aka 0.9.6-r5), possibly including Sophster, FreeSophster, and FreeSophsterPAM, removes the (1) setuid, (2) setgid, and (3) sticky bits when changing a file, which might allow attackers to gain privileges or conduct other unauthorized activities.

Affected configurations

• steven schaefer sophster 0.9.5 r8 • steven schaefer sophster 0.9.5 r10 • steven schaefer sophster 0.9.5 r12 • steven schaefer sophster 0.9.5 r15 • steven schaefer sophster 0.9.6 r1 • steven schaefer sophster 0.9.6 r2 • steven schaefer sophster 0.9.6 r3

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