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utempter Device Path Handling Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA11417
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Release Date:
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2004-04-20
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Popularity:
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7,016 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: | utempter 0.5.x
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Steve Grubb has discovered a security issue in utempter, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with higher privileges on a vulnerable system.
The program doesn't exit correctly when a path to a device contains "/../", "/./", or "//". This may allow arbitrary files to be overwritten via symlink attacks, if a higher privileged program trusts information in the utmp file.
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