Security Advisory

CVE-2004-2768

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-06-08 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 01:36:25
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

dpkg 1.9.21 does not properly reset the metadata of a file during replacement of the file in a package upgrade, which might allow local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link to a vulnerable (1) setuid file, (2) setgid file, or (3) device, a related issue to CVE-2010-2059.