CVE-2006-2916

Summary

CVECVE-2006-2916
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-06-15 10:02:00 UTC
Updated2024-01-21 01:42:00 UTC
Descriptionartswrapper in aRts, when running setuid root on Linux 2.6.0 or later versions, does not check the return value of the setuid function call, which allows local users to gain root privileges by causing setuid to fail, which prevents artsd from dropping privileges.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-273

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Kde Arts 1.0 All All All
Application Kde Arts 1.2 All All All
Application Kde Arts 1.0 All All All
Application Kde Arts 1.2 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
aRts "artswrapper" Helper Application setuid Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo update for beast - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
SUSE Updates for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Security Announcement SUSE www.novell.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Artswrapper setuid() Failure Lets Local Users Gain Root Privileges SECTRACK securitytracker.com
Beast Resource Limit Local Denial Of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Slackware update for arts - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Advisories - Mandriva Linux MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories SLACKWARE slackware.com
KDE ArtsWrapper Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Patch
Security Updates: Artswrapper and KDM CONFIRM dot.kde.org Patch
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
BEAST/BSE "seteuid()" and "setreuid()" Security Issue - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
26506 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
ANNOUNCE: BEAST/BSE v0.7.1 MLIST mail.gnome.org
www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-2.txt CONFIRM www.kde.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Mandriva update for arts - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
BEAST: Denial of Service — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- aRts: Privilege escalation GENTOO www.gentoo.org
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Secunia - Advisories - Gentoo update for aRts SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2006-08-16Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. We do not ship aRts as setuid root on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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