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Gentoo: GLSA-200409-12 Critical Risk: Star SUID Root Vulnerability Exploit

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Calendar Grey September 7, 2004
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A critical vulnerability in Star on Gentoo can lead to unauthorized root access via a suid root flaw. Immediate upgrade recommended!
star contains a suid root vulnerability which could potentially grant unauthorized root access to an attacker.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: star: Suid root vulnerability Date: September 07, 2004 Bugs: #61797 ID: 200409-11

Synopsis ======= star contains a suid root vulnerability which could potentially grant unauthorized root access to an attacker.
Background ========= star is an enhanced tape archiver, much like tar, that is recognized for it's speed as well as it's enhanced mt/rmt support.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-arch/star < star-1.5_alpha46 >= star-1.5_alpha46
========== A suid root vulnerability exists in versions of star that are configured to use ssh for remote tape access.
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