CVE-2006-0071

MEDIUM 6.6CVE-2006-0071 · Published 04/01/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-0071 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.6) vulnerability affecting app-crypt pinentry (gentoo).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.39%, higher than 33.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
app-crypt pinentry gentoo	`= 0.7.2`	No fix yet

Description

The ebuild for pinentry before 0.7.2-r2 on Gentoo Linux sets setgid bits for pinentry programs, which allows local users to read or overwrite arbitrary files as gid 0.

References

secunia.com/advisories/18284
gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-01.xml · Patch
osvdb.org/22211
securityfocus.com/bid/16120 · Patch

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