Source: inetutils Version: 2:2.4-2 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for inetutils. CVE-2023-40303[0]: | GNU inetutils through 2.4 may allow privilege escalation because of | unchecked return values of set*id() family functions in ftpd, rcp, | rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the | setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop privileges | before letting an ordinary user control the activities of the | process. 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-2023-40303 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40303 [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/inetutils.git/commit/?id=e4e65c03f4c11292a3e40ef72ca3f194c8bffdd6 [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2023-07/msg00000.html Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
