Directory Traversal Vulnerability in S-nail/S-mailx Allows Local Privilege Escalation

CVE-2017-5899 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.

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