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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2916
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CVE-2006-2916

Description:
artswrapper in aRts, when running setuid root on Linux 2.6.0 or later versions, does not check the return value of the setuid function call, which allows local users to gain root privileges by causing setuid to fail, which prevents artsd from dropping privileges.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27221

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html

ST
  1016298

SLACKWARE
  http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.468256

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA20827
  Secunia Advisory: SA20677
  Secunia Advisory: SA20786
  Secunia Advisory: SA20868
  Secunia Advisory: SA20899
  Secunia Advisory: SA25032
  Secunia Advisory: SA25059

OSVDB
  26506

MLIST
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/beast/2006-December/msg00025.html

MANDRIVA
  http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:107

GENTOO
  http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-22.xml
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-22.xml

CONFIRM
  http://dot.kde.org/1150310128/
  http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-2.txt

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/437362/100/0/threaded

BID
  18429
  23697


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