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xitalk Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11114
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Release Date:
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2004-03-12
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Popularity:
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5,690 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: | xitalk 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0151
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Description:
Steve Kemp has reported a vulnerability in xitalk, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The problem is that xitalk only drops setuid privileges but not setgid privileges before allowing local users to execute arbitrary commands on a system. This can allow execution of arbitrary commands with escalated privileges on systems where xitalk is installed setgid.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.1.11. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Remove the setgid bit on the utility on systems where it has been set.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Steve Kemp
Original Advisory:
http://shellcode.org/Advisories/XITALK.txt
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