National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0806
Original release date:12/31/2004
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
cdrecord in the cdrtools package before 2.01, when installed setuid root, does not properly drop privileges before executing a program specified in the RSH environment variable, which allows local users to gain privileges.
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
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. cdrecord is not shipped setuid and does not need to be made setuid with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4 packages.
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#700326
Name: VU#700326
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: cdrecord-rsh-gain-privileges(17303)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 11075
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FLSA:2058
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040910 CAU-EX-2004-0002: cdrecord-suidshell.sh
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1011091
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 12481
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040909 Bugtraq: cdrecord local root exploit
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2004:091
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19532
External Source: SGI
Name: 20060401-01-U