CVE-2017-5551

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5551
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5551.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-5551
Downstream
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Published
2017-02-06T06:59:00.717Z
Modified
2026-03-13T23:19:29.509948Z
Severity
  • 4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The simplesetacl function in fs/posix_acl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.6 preserves the setgid bit during a setxattr call involving a tmpfs filesystem, which allows local users to gain group privileges by leveraging the existence of a setgid program with restrictions on execute permissions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-7097.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.9.5"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-5551.json"