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In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript allows the smokeping user to gain ownership of any file, allowing for the smokeping user to gain root privileges

Published Sep 20, 2022

Description

In the ebuild package through smokeping-2.7.3-r1 for SmokePing on Gentoo, the initscript allows the smokeping user to gain ownership of any file, allowing for the smokeping user to gain root privileges. There is a race condition involving /var/lib/smokeping and chown.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-362

Race Condition

References (1)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 20, 2022
Updated May 29, 2025
Reserved Sep 20, 2022
Link CVE-2016-20015
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated May 29, 2025
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2016-20015
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2016-20015