SilverCity Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

BID:13894

Info

SilverCity Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13894
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jun 08 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 08 2005 12:00AM
Credit: This issue was announced in a Gentoo advisory.
Vulnerable: SilverCity SilverCity 0.9.4
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable: SilverCity SilverCity 0.9.5 -r1

Discussion

SilverCity Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

The SilverCity installation package is reported prone to a vulnerability. Reports indicate that when SilverCity is installed three of the SilverCity executables are installed with insecure permissions.

An attacker that had local access to a vulnerable computer may modify the SilverCity executables and replace them with trojaned versions.

Exploit / POC

SilverCity Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

Solution / Fix

SilverCity Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

Solution:
Gentoo has released an advisory (GLSA 200506-05) and an updated eBuild to address this issue. Gentoo users that have the SilverCity utility installed may apply this update by invoking the following sequence of commands as a superuser:
emerge --sync
emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-text/silvercity-0.9.5-r1"

Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches 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]>.

References

SilverCity Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability

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