CVE-2012-4442 Information

Description

Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.9.3 retains the supplementary group IDs of the root account during operations with a non-root effective UID which might allow local users to bypass intended file-read restrictions by leveraging a race condition in a file-permission check.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688007 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688879 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/21/3