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aRts "artswrapper" Helper Application setuid Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20677
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Release Date:
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2006-06-15
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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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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | aRts 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2916 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A security issue has been reported in aRts, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
The security issue is caused due to the "artswrapper" helper application failing to check whether it has successfully dropped its privileges via "setuid()" before running the aRts daemon. This can potentially be exploited to launch the daemon with root privileges, which may allow the user to perform certain actions as the root user.
The security issue has been reported in versions 1.0.x and 1.2.x.
Note: "artswrapper" is usually suid root to enable normal users to start the aRts daemon with realtime privileges.
Solution:
Apply patches.
Patch for version 1.2.x:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/arts-1.2.x.diff
64fcd7bf31d8b0ade22b8f98fbebe0fb
Patch for version 1.0.x:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches/arts-1.0.x-diff
19b351f6bf3055591399edba1b6ccc01
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
Original Advisory:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-2.txt
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