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CVE-2017-14484
HIGH · CVSS 7.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-15T10:29:00.340 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:06:14.060

Summary

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.

Affected products

gentoo — sci-mathematics-gimps

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References

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