OpenBSD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2019-19726

 Summary: Qualys researchers discovered a local privilege escalation vulnerability in OpenBSD’s dynamic loader (ld.so): this vulnerability is exploitable in the default installation (via the set-user-ID executable chpass or passwd) and yields full root privileges to attackers who has a low privilege on the system.   Vulnerability: In OpenBSD with a low memory conditions, “_dl_split_path” function … Continue reading “OpenBSD Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2019-19726”