Source: openrc
Version: 0.42-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/201
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Control: found -1 0.40.3-1

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for openrc.

CVE-2018-21269[0]:
| checkpath in OpenRC through 0.42.1 might allow local users to take
| ownership of arbitrary files because a non-terminal path component can
| be a symlink.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-21269
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-21269
[1] https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/201
[2] http://michael.orlitzky.com/cves/cve-2018-21269.xhtml

Regards,
Salvatore

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