Vigil@nce - Meson: privilege escalation via an executable stack
May 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 23/04/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can bypass memory access restrictions because Meson
wrongly creates an executable stack, in order to escalate his
privileges.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Meson-privilege-escalation-via-an-executable-stack-29102