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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2019· Updated Sep 16, 2024

squid: /usr/sbin/pinger packaged with wrong permission

CVE-2019-3688

Description

The /usr/sbin/pinger binary packaged with squid in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 before and including version 4.8-5.8.1 and in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 before and including 3.5.21-26.17.1 had squid:root, 0750 permissions. This allowed an attacker that compromissed the squid user to gain persistence by changing the binary

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