FKIE_CVE-2012-4442

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-10-05 21:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:45
Severity
Summary
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID, which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007
secalert@redhat.comhttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
monkey-project monkey 0.9.3
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T23:45:06.463",
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