Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in GNU Guix's guix-daemon

CVE-2024-52867

What is CVE-2024-52867?

The guix-daemon in GNU Guix prior to commit 5ab3c4c allows local users to escalate privileges through unaddressed build output access. This vulnerability pertains to the inadequate handling of file metadata, particularly for setuid and setgid programs. To mitigate this vulnerability, users are advised to perform specific pull, reconfiguration, and restart actions. The fixes in both commits 5ab3c4c and 5582241 are necessary to secure the system against this issue.

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