Abuse Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

BID:12734

Info

Abuse Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 12734
Class: Unknown
CVE: CVE-2005-0098
CVE-2005-0099
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 07 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 10:56AM
Credit: Discovery of the buffer overflow vulnerabilities is credited to Erik Sj?lund, Steve Kemp is credited with the discovery of the file corruption vulnerability.
Vulnerable: 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
Abuse Abuse 2.0
+ 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
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Abuse Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Abuse is reported prone to multiple vulnerabilities. The following individual issues are reported:

Abuse is reported prone to multiple local buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

It is reported that a local attacker may exploit these issues to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges.

Abuse is also reported prone to an insecure file creation vulnerability. Reports indicate that this issue may be leveraged to overwrite arbitrary files with superuser privileges.

Exploit / POC

Abuse Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

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

Abuse Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Debian has released an advisory (DSA 691-1) and fixes to address these issues. Please peruse the referenced advisory for further details in regard to obtaining and applying fixes.


Abuse Abuse 2.0

References

Abuse Multiple Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

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