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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:26901
HistorySep 21, 2020 - 6:24 a.m.

Privilege Escalation

2020-09-2106:24:43
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
6

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

xawtv:xenial is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The function dev_open() in v4l-conf.c does not perform sufficient checks to prevent an unprivileged caller of the program from opening unintended filesystem paths. This allows a local attacker with access to the v4l-conf setuid-root program to test for the existence of arbitrary files and to trigger an open on arbitrary files with mode O_RDWR. To achieve this, relative path components need to be added to the device path, as demonstrated by a v4l-conf -c /dev/…/root/.bash_history command.

CPENameOperatorVersion
xawtv:xenialeq3.103
xawtv:xenialeq3.103