Bug 2192208 (CVE-2023-28144)

Summary:	CVE-2023-28144 hotspot: CVE-2023-28144
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Patrick Del Bello <pdelbell>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Patrick Del Bello 2023-04-30 12:54:31 UTC

KDAB Hotspot 1.3.x and 1.4.x through 1.4.1, in a non-default configuration, allows privilege escalation because of race conditions involving symlinks and elevate_perf_privileges.sh chown calls.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/14/8
https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/releases

Comment 1 Patrick Del Bello 2023-04-30 12:54:43 UTC

Created hotspot tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-38 [bug 2192209]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-04-30 17:40:37 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.