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Bug 194800

Summary: app-admin/rmake Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2007-5194)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) <keytoaster>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-05 13:19:23 UTC
CVE-2007-5194 (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5194):
  The Chroot server in rMake 1.0.11 creates a /dev/zero device file with
  read/write permissions for the rMake user and the same device numbers as
  /dev/port, which might allow local users to gain root privileges.
Comment 1 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-05 13:20:20 UTC
Oops.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194550 ***