• Below: local privilege escalation (SUSE security team blog)

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Wed Mar 12 15:00:08 2025
    Below: local privilege escalation (SUSE security team blog)

    Date:
    Wed, 12 Mar 2025 14:47:20 +0000

    Description:
    The SUSE Security Team blog has a post with a
    detailed analysis of a vulnerability ( CVE-2025-27591 )
    in the below tool for recording and displaying system data. In January 2025, Below was packaged and submitted to openSUSE
    Tumbleweed. Below runs as a systemd service with root privileges. The
    SUSE security team monitors additions and changes to systemd service
    unit files in openSUSE Tumbleweed, and through this we noticed
    problematic log directory permissions applied in Below's code.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1013842/


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