>> Gentoo Security Update Fixes Pinentry Local Privilege Escalation Issue
Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes Pinentry Local Privilege Escalation Issue VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0022 CVE ID : CVE-2006-0071
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-01-04
Technical Description
Gentoo has released updated packages to address a vulnerability identified in Pinentry. This flaw is due to an error where the pinentry ebuild incorrectly sets the permissions of the pinentry binaries upon installation, so that the sgid bit is set making them execute with the privileges of group ID 0, which could be exploited by malicious users of pinentry to read and overwrite files with a group ID of 0.
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