The init script in the Gentoo app-admin/logstash-bin package before 5.5.3 and 5.6.x before 5.6.1 has "chown -R" calls for user-writable directory trees, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a $LS_USER account for creation of a hard link.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-25T17:00:00

Updated: 2017-09-25T16:57:01

Reserved: 2017-09-25T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-14730

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-09-25T17:29:00.787

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223


Link: CVE-2017-14730

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