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CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0850
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2004-0850

Description:
Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs, which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17297

ST
  1011195

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml

CERT-VN
  339089

BID
  11141


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