Security Advisory

CVE-2017-5899

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-27 15:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 15:11:49

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.

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