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Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

CVE-2012-1187

High
7.5/10

Summary

Bitlbee does not drop extra group privileges correctly in unix.c

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-273 - Improper Check for Dropped Privileges

The software attempts to drop privileges but does not check or incorrectly checks to see if the drop succeeded.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published