Gentoo: 200305-06 Moderate: cdrtools Privilege Escalation
gentoo
May 17, 2003
A vulnerability in cdrecord that could lead to a root compromise was discovered
Summary
- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200305-06 - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- =cdrtools-1.11.39-r1
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Cdrecord isn't installed setuid root by default in Gentoo.
Read the full advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105285351304781&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running app-cdr/cdrtools upgrade to one of the following versions: for users running xcdroast: cdrtools-1.11.33-r1 for sparc users: cdrtools-1.11.39-r1 for everyone else: cdrtools-2.01_alpha14
emerge sync emerge \=app-cdr/emerge clean
- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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PACKAGE : cdrtools
SUMMARY : privelige escalation
DATE : 2003-05-17 14:07 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =cdrtools-2.01_alpha14, =cdrtools-1.11.33-r1,
CVE : CAN-2003-0289
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