CVE-2017-14730

The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LS_USER account for creation of a hard link.

• CWE-732

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/628558Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5665Third Party Advisory
• https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=18f97c851c209f291b31ae7a902719f1c17c79faThird Party Advisory
• https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bbd6cb398c1740c68e9b1b78340c887c58c1fbdaThird Party Advisory
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/628558Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5665Third Party Advisory
• https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=18f97c851c209f291b31ae7a902719f1c17c79faThird Party Advisory
• https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=bbd6cb398c1740c68e9b1b78340c887c58c1fbdaThird Party Advisory

Published

Sep 25, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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