>> grsecurity RBAC Admin Role Privileges Dropping Local Security Weakness
Title : grsecurity RBAC Admin Role Privileges Dropping Local Security Weakness VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0199 CVE ID : CVE-2006-0228
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : No Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-01-16
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in grsecurity, which could cause certain services to run with elevated privileges. This issue is due to an RBAC error where starting services from an admin role, then exiting the shell without unauthenticating using "gradm -u", would cause the restarted service to run with admin role privileges.