Gentoo: GLSA-200512-17 High Severity: Scponly Multiple Privilege Escalation

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200512-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: scponly: Multiple privilege escalation issues Date: December 29, 2005 Bugs: #116526 ID: 200512-17

Synopsis ======= Local users can exploit an scponly flaw to gain root privileges, and scponly restricted users can use another vulnerability to evade shell restrictions.
Background ========= scponly is a restricted shell, allowing only a few predefined commands. It is often used as a complement to OpenSSH to provide access to remote users without providing any remote execution privileges.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/scponly < 4.2 ...