Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-40303

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - 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...

Privilege escalation

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...

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...

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...

PT-2023-27371 · Gnu +2 · Gnu Inetutils +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNU inetutils versions prior to 2.5 Description: The issue allows privilege escalation due to unchecked return values of setid family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is relevant if the setuid system call fails when ...