Vulnerability CVE-2020-36657


Published: 2023-01-26

Description:
uptimed before 0.4.6-r1 on Gentoo allows local users (with access to the uptimed user account) to gain root privileges by creating a hard link within the /var/spool/uptimed directory, because there is an unsafe chown -R call.

 References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/630810

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