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TITLE:
babelweb Supplementary Groups Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45888

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-09-09

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DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in babelweb, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to potentially perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The weakness is caused due to the application not properly dropping
supplementary groups.

The weakness is reported in version 0.2.2. Prior versions may also be
affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.2.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Julien Cristau.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://github.com/kerneis/babelweb/commit/7194372fdaf1abed8ee6ce5f4a2f08e12d7c3e64

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