Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.51717
Category:	Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:	Fedora Legacy Security Advisory FLSA-2005:2058
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory FLSA-2005:2058. Max Vozeler found that the cdrecord program, when is set suid root, fails to drop privileges when it executes a program specified by the user through the $RSH environment variable. This can be abused by a local attacker to obtain root privileges. In the default configuration of Red Hat Linux 9, the cdrecord program is not set suid root and this attack is not possible. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2004-0806 to this issue. Users of cdrtools are advised to upgrade to these errata packages, which contain a backported patch correcting this issue. Affected platforms: Redhat 9 Solution: http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FLSA-2005:2058 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 7.2
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 11075 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-0806 http://www.securityfocus.org/bid/11075 Bugtraq: 20040909 Bugtraq: cdrecord local root exploit (Google Search) http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2004/Sep/0097.html Bugtraq: 20040910 CAU-EX-2004-0002: cdrecord-suidshell.sh (Google Search) http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2004-09/0108.html CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#700326 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/700326 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2058 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:091 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9805 http://securitytracker.com/id?1011091 http://secunia.com/advisories/12481/ http://secunia.com/advisories/19532 SGI Security Advisory: 20060401-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U XForce ISS Database: cdrecord-rsh-gain-privileges(17303) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17303
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