From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 06:35:10 CDT

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TITLE:
cdrecord Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12481

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12481/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
cdrecord 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/1947/

DESCRIPTION:
Max Vozeler has reported a vulnerability in cdrecord, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to cdrecord not dropping privileges
before executing a program specified by the user via the "RSH"
environment variable.

This only affects Mandrake Linux and other distributions where
cdrecord is installed setuid root.

SOLUTION:
Remove the setuid bit from cdrecord.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Max Vozeler

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:091

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