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CVE-2006-0071

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-01-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The ebuild for pinentry before 0.7.2-r2 on Gentoo Linux sets setgid bits for pinentry programs, which allows local users to read or overwrite arbitrary files as gid 0.

Affected products

• gentoo App-Crypt Pinentry: 0.7.2, 0.7.2-r1
• gentoo Linux: all versions

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/18284
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-01.xml
• http://www.osvdb.org/22211
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16120
• http://secunia.com/advisories/18284
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200601-01.xml
• http://www.osvdb.org/22211
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16120

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