Security Advisory SA9600 - KisMAC Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

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Secunia Advisory SA9600

KisMAC Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory

SA9600

Release Date

2003-08-25

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

KisMAC 0.x

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CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been identified in KisMAC allowing malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The scripts: "viha_driver.sh", "macjack_load.sk", and "airojack_load.sh" allow malicious users to change ownership of files or load arbitrary kernel modules by changing the "$DRIVER_KEXT" variable.

The script "exchangeKernel.sh" allows malicious users to overwrite the kernel.

The scripts "setuid_enable.sh" and "setuid_disable.sh" can be exploited to change the ownership of arbitrary files.

The scripts "viha_prep.sh" and "viha_unprep.sh" allows malicious users to execute arbitrary binary files with root privileges.

These vulnerabilities are only present, when the "SUID Shell Scripts" option is enabled.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 0.05d.

Solution
Reportedly, version 0.05d4 isn't vulnerable.
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Original Advisory
http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a082203-1.txt

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