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cdrecord Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA12481
Release Date: 2004-09-08
Last Update: 2004-09-17
Popularity: 11,169 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:cdrecord 2.x

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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.

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