PT-2006-1156 · Gentoo · Pinentry

Tavis Ormandy · Published 2006-01-04 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2006-0071

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: pinentry versions prior to 0.7.2-r2

Description: The issue allows local users to read or overwrite arbitrary files as gid 0 due to the ebuild for pinentry setting setgid bits for pinentry programs on Gentoo Linux.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.7.2-r2, update to version 0.7.2-r2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-0071

Affected Products

Pinentry

References · 5

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/16120 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-0071 · Security Note
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-01.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18284 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/22211 · Note