Bug 1226422 (CVE-2024-36587)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-36587: DNSCrypt-proxy: escalate privileges to root via overwriting the binary dnscrypt-proxy
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: c unix <cunix>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: andrea.mattiazzo
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/410679/
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-06-17 08:39:30 UTC 
Insecure permissions in DNSCrypt-proxy v2.0.0alpha9 to v2.1.5 allows non-privileged attackers to escalate privileges to root via overwriting the binary dnscrypt-proxy.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-36587
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36587
https://github.com/go-compile/security-advisories/blob/master/vulns/CVE-2024-36587.md
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292346
Comment 1 Andrea Mattiazzo 2024-06-17 08:40:34 UTC 
Not affected when installed via zypper, executable is in /usr/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy with the right permission.