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cdrecord Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12481
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Release Date:
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2004-09-08
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Last Update:
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2004-09-17
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Popularity:
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10,066 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | cdrecord 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0806
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Description:
Max Vozeler has reported a vulnerability in cdrecord, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to cdrecord not dropping privileges before executing a program specified by the user via the "RSH" environment variable.
This only affects Mandrake Linux and other distributions where cdrecord is installed setuid root.
Solution:
Remove the setuid bit from cdrecord.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Max Vozeler
Changelog:
2004-09-17: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
Original Advisory:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:091
Other References:
US-CERT VU#700326:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/700326
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