Title: gkermit setgid uucp Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
Description:
The gkermit binary supplied with Redhat Linux (released after February 27, 2000) is setgid uucp. gkermit can read/write/append files with a gid of uucp, such as /etc/uucp/passwd and several /dev entries. Malicious use of gkermit is dangerous on systems running uucp.
Affected Products:
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 sparc
- RedHat gkermit 1.0.0 -3
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