ubuntu · CVE-2005-4532

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Priority: medium Published: 2005-12-28 01:03:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:37:16 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-4532 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (scponly), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

scponlyc in scponly 4.1 and earlier, when the operating system supports LD_PRELOAD mechanisms, allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by creating a chroot directory in their home directory, hard linking to a system setuid application, and using a modified LD_PRELOAD to modify expected function calls in the setuid application.

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