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>> grsecurity RBAC Admin Role Privileges Dropping Local Security Weakness
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Title : grsecurity RBAC Admin Role Privileges Dropping Local Security Weakness
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-0199
CVE ID : CVE-2006-0228
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-01-16
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A vulnerability has been identified in grsecurity, which could cause certain services to run with elevated privileges. This issue is due to an RBAC error where starting services from an admin role, then exiting the shell without unauthenticating using "gradm -u", would cause the restarted service to run with admin role privileges.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Julien Tinnes
ChangeLog
2006-01-16 : Initial release
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