cve/2016/CVE-2016-10151.md

### [CVE-2016-10151](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10151)
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### Description

The hesiod_init function in lib/hesiod.c in Hesiod 3.2.1 compares EUID with UID to determine whether to use configurations from environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges via the (1) HESIOD_CONFIG or (2) HES_DOMAIN environment variable and leveraging certain SUID/SGUID binary.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://github.com/achernya/hesiod/pull/9

#### Github
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