Battery Life Toolkit 'bltk_sudo' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:37996

Info

Battery Life Toolkit 'bltk_sudo' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 37996
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Jan 28 2010 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 19 2010 10:01AM
Credit: Matthew Garrett
Vulnerable: Red Hat Fedora 12
Red Hat Fedora 11
LessWatts.org Battery Life Toolkit 1.0.9
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Battery Life Toolkit 'bltk_sudo' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Battery Life Toolkit (BLTK) is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, resulting in the complete compromise of the affected computer.

This issue affects BLTK 1.0.9; other versions may be vulnerable as well.

Exploit / POC

Battery Life Toolkit 'bltk_sudo' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An attacker can use system utilities to exploit this issue.

The following proof of concept is available:

/usr/lib/bltk/bin/bltk_sudo /bin/bash

Solution / Fix

Battery Life Toolkit 'bltk_sudo' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for details.

References

Battery Life Toolkit 'bltk_sudo' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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