Security Advisory SA12484 - Star Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA12484

Star Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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SA12484

Release Date

2004-09-08

Last Update

2004-09-17

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

star 1.x

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CVE-2004-0850 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

An unspecified vulnerability has been reported in star, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

Successful exploitation requires that star has been configured to use SSH for remote tape access.

The vulnerability affects versions 1.5a09 through 1.5a45.

Solution
Update to version 1.5a46.

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