> Debian Bookworm haveged Important Local Privilege Escalation Fix DSA-6292-1
[DATE: 22/05/2026 21:05]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
Dirk Mueller discovered that a flaw in the function performing a credential check on the command socket of haveged, a userspace entropy daemon, may result in local privilege escalation. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.14-1+deb12u1.