aru Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 MandrakeSoft Security Advisory MDKSA-2003:058-1 : cdrecord May 21st, 2003 Updated cdrecord packages fix local root compromise A vulnerability in cdrecord was discovered that can be used to obtain root access because Mandrake Linux ships with the cdrecord binary suid root and sgid cdwriter. Updated packages are provided that fix this vulnerability. You may also elect to remove the suid and sgid bits from cdrecord manually, which can be done by executing, as root: chmod ug-s /usr/bin/cdrecord This is not required to protect yourself from this particular vulnerability, however. Update: Two additional format string problems were discovered by Olaf Kirch and an updated patch has been applied to fix those problems as well. The released versions of Mandrake GNU/Linux affected are: 8.2 [*] 8.2/PPC [*] 9.0 [*] 9.1 [*] 9.1/PPC [*] Corporate Server 2.1 Full information about this advisory, including the updated packages, is available at: www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2003:058-1 Other references: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?n...e=CAN-2003-0289 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=...85564307225&w=2 Posted automatically by aru (mdksec2mub v0.0.6) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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