Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 20, 2022· Updated May 29, 2025
CVE-2017-20148
CVE-2017-20148
Description
In the ebuild package through logcheck-1.3.23.ebuild for Logcheck on Gentoo, it is possible to achieve root privilege escalation from the logcheck user because of insecure recursive chown calls.
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Affected products
2- logcheck/Logcheckdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-10mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- bugs.gentoo.org/630752mitrex_refsource_MISC
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