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RsyncX Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12600
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Release Date:
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2004-09-20
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Last Update:
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2004-09-27
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Popularity:
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5,427 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: | RsyncX 2.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Matt Johnston has reported two vulnerabilities in RsyncX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
1) It is possible to execute arbitrary commands with "wheel" group privileges by including the path to a malicious "defaults" file in the "PATH" environment variable.
2) The scheduler component creates the temporary file "cron*rsyncx*" insecurely in the "/tmp" folder. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to conduct certain actions on the system with escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 2.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Change Page:
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