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LIN1019-7440 : Security Advisory - quagga - CVE-2021-44038

Created: Nov 21, 2021 Updated: Mar 7, 2022

Found In Version: 10.19.45.1

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 19

Component/s: Userspace

Description

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2021-44038 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44038)