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Plash Sandboxed Process TIOCSTI ioctl() Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA24498
Release Date: 2007-03-12
Last Update: 2007-03-14
Popularity: 5,309 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Plash 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
As a workaround, the vendor recommends users to proxy streams by piping them through "cat":
cat | pola-run ... 2>&1 | cat

Provided and/or discovered by:
Mark Seaborn

Changelog:
2007-03-14: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/PlashIssues/TtyVulnerability
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/plash/2007-03/msg00000.html

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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