Arch Linux: ASA-201706-25 Medium: lxterminal Access Control Bypass

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201706-25
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Severity: Medium
Date    : 2017-06-22
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-10369
Package : lxterminal
Type    : access restriction bypass
Remote  : No
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-264

Summary
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The package lxterminal before version 0.3.0-2 is vulnerable to access
restriction bypass.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 0.3.0-2.

# pacman -Syu "lxterminal>=0.3.0-2"

The problem has been fixed upstream but no release is available yet.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a
socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service
(preventing terminal launch), or possibly have other impact (bypassing
terminal access control).

Impact
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A local attacker might be able to cause a denial of service or bypass
the terminal access control to gain privileges or access sensitive
information.

References
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;a=commitdiff;h=f99163c6ff8b2f57c5f37b1ce5d62cf7450d4648
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/333539/lxterminal-in-the-netstat-output/333578
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862098
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2016-10369