Candidate: CVE-2016-10151
PublicDate: 2017-03-01 20:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10151
Description:
 The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with
 UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables,
 which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIOD_CONFIG or
 (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID
 binary.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332508
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852094
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Florian Weimer
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.0 HIGH]

Patches_hesiod:
 upstream: https://github.com/achernya/hesiod/commit/39b21dac9bc6473365de04d94be0da94941c7c73
upstream_hesiod: released (3.2.1-3.1)
precise_hesiod: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_hesiod: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_hesiod: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_hesiod: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_hesiod: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_hesiod: DNE
xenial_hesiod: released (3.2.1-3.1~build0.16.04.1)
yakkety_hesiod: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_hesiod: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_hesiod: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_hesiod: released (3.2.1-3.1~build0.18.04.1)
cosmic_hesiod: released (3.2.1-3.1~build0.18.10.1)
disco_hesiod: not-affected (3.2.1-3.1)
devel_hesiod: not-affected (3.2.1-3.1)