VDR Daemon Unspecified Remote File Access Vulnerability

BID:12356

Info

VDR Daemon Unspecified Remote File Access Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12356
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2005-0071
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 25 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 10:06AM
Credit: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: vdr daemon 1.0
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
+ Debian Linux 3.0 mips
+ Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
+ Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
+ Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
+ Debian Linux 3.0 arm
+ Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
+ Debian Linux 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

VDR Daemon Unspecified Remote File Access Vulnerability

An unspecified remote file access vulnerability affects the vdr daemon. The underlying issue that causes this vulnerability is likely a failure to abide by file access restrictions, although this is unconfirmed.This BID will be updated as more details are released.

An attacker may leverage this issue to overwrite arbitrary files on an affected computer. This can lead to a superuser compromise of the affected computer, corruption of data, as well as other attacks.

Exploit / POC

VDR Daemon Unspecified Remote File Access Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

VDR Daemon Unspecified Remote File Access Vulnerability

Solution:
Debian has released advisory DSA 656-1 along with fixes dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Gentoo has released advisory GLSA 200501-42 to address this issue. Gentoo users may carry out the following commands to update their computers:

emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/vdr-1.2.6-r1"

Please see the referenced Gentoo advisory for more information.


vdr daemon 1.0

References

VDR Daemon Unspecified Remote File Access Vulnerability

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