CVE-2018-6558

Publication date

2018-08-23 20:00:00

Family

canonical

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The pam_fscrypt module in fscrypt before 0.2.4 may incorrectly restore primary and supplementary group IDs to the values associated with the root user, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a successful login through certain applications that use Linux-PAM (aka pam).