Bug 2192208 (CVE-2023-28144) - CVE-2023-28144 hotspot: CVE-2023-28144
Summary: CVE-2023-28144 hotspot: CVE-2023-28144
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2023-28144
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2192209
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-04-30 12:54 UTC by Patrick Del Bello
Modified: 2023-04-30 17:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-04-30 17:40:39 UTC
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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.
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