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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
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n/aaffected
References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2357 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20899 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/26506 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:107 ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016298 ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-22.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20868 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437362/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20786 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-22.xml ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0409 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20677 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23697 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25059 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27221 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20827 ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25032 ↗
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-2.txt ↗
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/beast/2006-December/msg00025.html ↗
- http://dot.kde.org/1150310128/ ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18429 ↗
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.468256 ↗