Tetris-BSD Tetris-bsd.scores Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:17308

Info

Tetris-BSD Tetris-bsd.scores Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 17308
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Mar 29 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 29 2006 09:43PM
Credit: Tavis Ormandy disclosed this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Tetris-BSD Tetris-bsd.scores Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Tetris-BSD is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. The issue results from a design error.

A local attacker can leverage this issue to exploit latent vulnerabilities in applications by overwriting shared game data files.

Exploit / POC

Tetris-BSD Tetris-bsd.scores Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

Tetris-BSD Tetris-bsd.scores Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:

The vendor has released Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200603-26 to address this issue; please see the referenced advisory for further details.

References

Tetris-BSD Tetris-bsd.scores Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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