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Vulnerability Bulletins


Aumento de privilegios en Splitvt

Vulnerability classification

Property Value
Confidence level Oficial
Impact Aumento de privilegios
Dificulty Experto
Required attacker level Acceso remoto con cuenta

System information

Property Value
Affected manufacturer GNU/Linux
Affected software splitvt <= 1.6.6

Description

Se ha descubierto una vulnerabilidad en splitvt 1.6.6 y anteriores. La vulnerabilidad reside en un error al no disminuir los privilegios de grupo antes de ejecutar "xprop" en el fichero "misc.c".

Un atacante local podría obtener los privilegios del grupo "utmp".

Solution



Actualización de software

Debian (DSA-1500-1)

Debian Linux 4.0
Source
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1.diff.gz
alpha (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_alpha.deb
amd64 (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_amd64.deb
hppa (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_hppa.deb
i386 (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_i386.deb
ia64 (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_ia64.deb
mips (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_mips.deb
powerpc (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_powerpc.deb
s390 (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_s390.deb

Standar resources

Property Value
CVE CVE-2008-0162
BID 27936

Other resources

Debian Security Advisory (DSA-1500-1)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00064.html

Version history

Version Comments Date
1.0 Aviso emitido 2008-02-25
Ministerio de Defensa
CNI
CCN
CCN-CERT