CVE-2016-20015

Publication date

2022-09-20 17:01:47

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript allows the smokeping user to gain ownership of any file, allowing for the smokeping user to gain root privileges. There is a race condition involving /var/lib/smokeping and chown.