"loolforkit" is a privileged program that is supposed to be run by a special, non-privileged "lool" user. Before doing anything else "loolforkit" checks, if it was invoked by the "lool" user, and refuses to run with privileges, if it's not the case. In the vulnerable version of "loolforkit" this check was wrong, so a normal user could start "loolforkit" and eventually get local root privileges.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Document Fdn.

Published: 2021-01-26T00:00:00

Updated: 2021-02-23T15:33:49

Reserved: 2021-01-19T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2021-25630

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-02-23T16:15:13.253

Modified: 2021-02-27T03:04:30.353


Link: CVE-2021-25630

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