kernel: Setting a POSIX ACL via setxattr doesn't clear the setgid bit

It was found that when file permissions were modified via chmod and the user modifying them was not in the owning group or capable of CAPFSETID, the setgid bit would be cleared. Setting a POSIX ACL via setxattr sets the file permissions as well as the new ACL, but doesn't clear the setgid bit in ...

kernel: Setting a POSIX ACL via setxattr doesn't clear the setgid bit

It was found that when file permissions were modified via chmod and the user modifying them was not in the owning group or capable of CAPFSETID, the setgid bit would be cleared. Setting a POSIX ACL via setxattr sets the file permissions as well as the new ACL, but doesn't clear the setgid bit in ...

CVE-2015-5200

The trace functionality in libvdpau before 1.1.1, when used in a setuid or setgid application, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2005-0503

uim before 0.4.5.1 trusts certain environment variables when libUIM is used in setuid or setgid applications, which allows local users to gain privileges...

CVE-2005-0503

uim before 0.4.5.1 trusts certain environment variables when libUIM is used in setuid or setgid applications, which allows local users to gain privileges...

rh 6.2 - gid compromises, etc

Probably it's nothing exciting, but several packets supplied with RH 6.2 will allow 500 gid/uid compromises. On every system it HAS some kind of meaning - sometimes just a little exceeding quotas, hiding from accounting, anonymous intrusions to other systems - but sometimes compromised uucp or ne...