Local Privilege Escalation via Hard Link Attack on Portage Lockfiles

Local Privilege Escalation via Hard Link Attack on Portage Lockfiles

CVE-2004-1901 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Portage before 2.0.50-r3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a hard link attack on the lockfiles.

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