sudo: Sudo: Privilege escalation due to failure in privilege drop calls

A flaw was found in Sudo. A local user could exploit a failure in the setuid, setgid, or setgroups calls, which are used to drop privileges before running the mailer. This oversight allows for privilege escalation, enabling the user to gain elevated access on the system...

sudo: Sudo: Privilege escalation due to failure in privilege drop calls

A flaw was found in Sudo. A local user could exploit a failure in the setuid, setgid, or setgroups calls, which are used to drop privileges before running the mailer. This oversight allows for privilege escalation, enabling the user to gain elevated access on the system...

sudo: Sudo: Privilege escalation due to failure in privilege drop calls

A flaw was found in Sudo. A local user could exploit a failure in the setuid, setgid, or setgroups calls, which are used to drop privileges before running the mailer. This oversight allows for privilege escalation, enabling the user to gain elevated access on the system...

OESA-2026-1999 sudo security update

Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. Security Fixes: In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setui...

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20604-1 Security update for sudo

This update for sudo fixes the following issues: - CVE-2026-35535: unhandled failure of setuid, setgid or setgroups calls during a mailer privilege drop allows for local privilege escalation bsc1261420...

CVE-2026-32107

xrdp (open source RDP server) versions up to 0.10.5 are affected by a privilege drop handling flaw in the session execution component. The issue allows an authenticated local attacker to escalate to root and execute arbitrary code due to improper privilege management during privilege drop. An add...

OESA-2026-1908 sudo security update

Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. Security Fixes: In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setui...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-35535

In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setuid, setgid, or setgroups call, during a privilege drop before running the mailer, is not a fatal error and can lead to privilege escalation...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-35535

In Sudo through 1.9.17p2 before 3e474c2, a failure of a setuid, setgid, or setgroups call, during a privilege drop before running the mailer, is not a fatal error and can lead to privilege escalation...

EUVD-2006-3081

Malware in sbrugna...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-40303

GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges before letting an ordinary us...

SUSE CVE-2006-2607

docommand.c in Vixie cron vixie-cron 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow local users to gain root privileges if setuid fails in cases such as PAM failures or resource limits, as originally demonstrated by a program that exceeds the process limits as defined in...

SUSE CVE-2006-3083

The 1 krshd and 2 v4rcp applications in a MIT Kerberos 5 krb5 up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, when running on Linux and AIX, and b Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which allows local users to gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges usi...

SUSE CVE-2011-1946

gnomesu-pam-backend in libgnomesu 1.0.0 prints an error message but proceeds with the non-error code path upon failure of the setgid or setuid function, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to two unprivileged user accounts, and running many processes under one of thes...

Updated glusterfs packages fix security vulnerability

There were cases where setuid could fail even when the caller is UID 0 The glusterd.service file was ommitted from the glusterfs package This update resolves both of these issues...

MGASA-2015-0334 Updated glusterfs packages fix security vulnerability

There were cases where setuid could fail even when the caller is UID 0 The glusterd.service file was set as executable but that is not necessary. This update resolves both of these issues...

MGASA-2015-0332 Updated glusterfs packages fix security vulnerability

There were cases where setuid could fail even when the caller is UID 0 The glusterd.service file was ommitted from the glusterfs package This update resolves both of these issues...

mod_wsgi: possible privilege escalation in setuid() failure scenarios

It was found that modwsgi did not properly drop privileges if the call to setuid failed. If modwsgi was set up to allow unprivileged users to run WSGI applications, a local user able to run a WSGI application could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. Note: modwsgi i...

mod_wsgi: possible privilege escalation in setuid() failure scenarios

It was found that modwsgi did not properly drop privileges if the call to setuid failed. If modwsgi was set up to allow unprivileged users to run WSGI applications, a local user able to run a WSGI application could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. Note: modwsgi i...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0470

super.c in Super 3.30.0 does not check the return value of the setuid function when the -F flag is set, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka an RLIMITNPROC attack...