High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-15901
CVE-2019-15901
Description
An issue was discovered in slicer69 doas before 6.2 on certain platforms other than OpenBSD. A setusercontext(3) call with flags to change the UID, primary GID, and secondary GIDs was replaced (on certain platforms: Linux and possibly NetBSD) with a single setuid(2) call. This resulted in neither changing the group id nor initializing secondary group ids.
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Affected products
2- slicer69/doasdescription
Patches
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References
3- github.com/slicer69/doas/commit/6cf0236184ff6304bf5e267ccf7ef02874069697nvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- github.com/slicer69/doas/compare/6.1p1...6.2nvdPatchRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
- github.com/slicer69/doas/pull/23nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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