CVE-2016-10151

Description

The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIOD_CONFIG or (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID binary.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-01

https://github.com/achernya/hesiod/pull/9

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332508

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90952

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3