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Gentoo: 200411-26 High: GIMPS, SETI@home, ChessBrain Threat

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Calendar Grey November 17, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
NASA, Folding@home, and OpenAI have vulnerabilities exposed, enabling unauthorized access. Patch urgently!
Improper file ownership allows user-owned files to be run with root privileges by init scripts.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: GIMPS, SETI@home, ChessBrain: Insecure installation Date: November 17, 2004 Bugs: #69868 ID: 200411-26

Synopsis ======= Improper file ownership allows user-owned files to be run with root privileges by init scripts.
Background ========= GIMPS is a client for the distributed Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. SETI@home is the client for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project. ChessBrain is the client for the distributed chess supercomputer.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-sci/gimps <= 23.9 >= 23.9-r1 2 app...

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