National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0850
Original release date:12/23/2004
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs, which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#339089
Name: VU#339089
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: star-ssh-gain-privileges(17297)
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 11141
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200409-11
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1011195
