GIMPS: Root privilege escalation

Background GIMPS, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, is a software capable of find Mersenne Primes, which are used in cryptography. GIMPS is also used for hardware testing. Description It was discovered that Gentoo’s default GIMPS installation suffered from a privilege escalation...

Hardcoded credentials

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search GIMPS allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed...

CVE-2017-14484

Summary: CVE-2017-14484 affects Gentoo’s sci-mathematics/gimps prior to 28.10-r1, enabling a local user to escalate privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps due to an unsafe chown -R in the init/checkconfig path. The vulnerability is documented in multiple sources (NVD description ...