medium4.7
CVE-2012-4442
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users…
Impact
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Monkey-Project | Monkey | Version 0.9.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3