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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2916

Original release date:06/15/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

artswrapper in aRts, when running setuid root on Linux 2.6.0 or later versions, does not check the return value of the setuid function call, which allows local users to gain root privileges by causing setuid to fail, which prevents artsd from dropping privileges.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 1.5

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Solution

Product is only vulnerable when running setuid root on Linux 2.6.0 or later versions. Vendor links provide patches for each affected version.}

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/16/2006): Not vulnerable. We do not ship aRts as setuid root on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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External Source: BID

Name: 18429

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18429

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-2.txt

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-2.txt

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://dot.kde.org/1150310128/

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://dot.kde.org/1150310128/