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Synaesthesia Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10945
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Release Date:
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2004-02-23
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Last Update:
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2005-02-15
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Popularity:
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5,308 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: | Synaesthesia 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0160
CVE-2005-0070
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Synaesthesia, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
1) Synaesthesia creates a configuration file with root privileges, which is writable by the users group. This can potentially be exploited to escalate privileges.
2) Synaesthesia reads configuration and mixer files with root privileges. This can potentially be exploited to disclose sensitive information.
Solution:
Remove the setuid bit.
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Ulf Harnhammar
2) Erik Sjölund and Devin Carraway
Changelog:
2005-02-15: Added additional information provided by Erik Sjölund and Devin Carraway.
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