CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10151
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIOD_CONFIG or (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID binary.
Affected configurations
• hesiod project hesiod 3.2.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90952 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332508 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/achernya/hesiod/pull/9 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-01 security.gentoo.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90952 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332508 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/achernya/hesiod/pull/9 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-01 security.gentoo.org