CVE-2017-14484

The Gentoo sci-mathematics/gimps package before 28.10-r1 for Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) allows local users to gain privileges by creating a hard link under /var/lib/gimps, because an unsafe "chown -R" command is executed.

• CWE-269

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603408Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603408Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Published

Sep 15, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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