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Secunia Advisory SA19323

RunIt "chpst" Multiple Groups Handling Security Issue
Secunia Advisory SA19323
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Release Date 2006-03-22
   
Popularity 7,380 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
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Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
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Software:
runit 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-1319 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Tino Keitel has reported a security issue in RunIt, which potentially can cause a process to run with escalated group privileges.

The security issue is caused due to an integer type definition error in "uidgid.h". This can cause the group permissions of a process to be incorrect changed to the "root" group when "chpst" is used to set the permissions of a process using the "-u" option with multiple group names.

Successful exploitation requires that "chpst" is compiled against the dietlibc library.

The security issue has been reported in version 1.3.3 and affects only the x86 platform. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to version 1.4.1.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Tino Keite

Original Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356016

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