Gentoo: GLSA-200409-12 Critical Risk: Star SUID Root Vulnerability Exploit
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September 7, 2004
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
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star contains a suid root vulnerability which could potentially grant
unauthorized root access to an attacker.
Background
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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
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-arch/star < star-1.5_alpha46 >= star-1.5_alpha46
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A suid root vulnerability exists in versions of star that are
configured to use ssh for remote tape access.
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