CVE-2021-3864

A flaw was found in the way the dumpable flag setting was handled when certain SUID binaries executed its descendants. The prerequisite is a SUID binary that sets real UID equal to effective UID, and real GID equal to effective GID. The descendant will then have a dumpable value set to 1. As a result, if the descendant process crashes and core_pattern is set to a relative value, its core dump is stored in the current directory with uid:gid permissions. An unprivileged local user with eligible root SUID binary could use this flaw to place core dumps into root-owned directories, potentially resulting in escalation of privileges.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-3864.json"

unresolved_ranges

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