National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0806

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):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)

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

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/700326

External Source: XF

Name: cdrecord-rsh-gain-privileges(17303)

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17303

External Source: BID

Name: 11075

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.org/bid/11075

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FLSA:2058

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2058

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040910 CAU-EX-2004-0002: cdrecord-suidshell.sh

Hyperlink:http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2004-09/0108.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1011091

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1011091

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 12481

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/12481/

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040909 Bugtraq: cdrecord local root exploit

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2004/Sep/0097.html

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2004:091

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:091

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19532

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19532

External Source: SGI

Name: 20060401-01-U

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U