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KisMAC Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA9600
Release Date: 2003-08-25
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Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:KisMAC 0.x

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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.

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