Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package elevation of privilege vulnerability

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package is a Mersenne prime search package from the Gentoo Foundation. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in versions of the Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package prior to 28.10-r1. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain privileges by...

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...

CVE-2017-14484

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...