Vulnerability in Redhat Linux

CVE-2001-0787

LPRng in Red Hat Linux 7.0 and 7.1 does not properly drop memberships in supplemental groups when lowering privileges, which could allow a local user to elevate privileges.

EPSS: 0.007 (50.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Linux — versions 7.0, 7.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (government-resource, x_refsource_CIAC, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)