Gentoo: GLSA-200409-17 High: Local Privilege Escalation in SUS
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September 14, 2004
SUS contains a string format bug that could lead to local privilege escalation.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-17
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: SUS: Local root vulnerability
Date: September 14, 2004
Bugs: #63927
ID: 200409-17
Synopsis
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SUS contains a string format bug that could lead to local privilege
escalation.
Background
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SUS is a utility that allows regular users to be able to execute
certain commands as root.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-admin/sus < 2.0.2-r1 >= 2.0.2-r1
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Leon Juranic found a bug in the logging functionality of SUS that can
lead to local privilege escalation. A format string vulnerability
exists in the log() function due to an...
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