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[SA15426] PPxP Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 04:07:12 CDT

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TITLE:
PPxP Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15426

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15426/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
PPxP
http://secunia.com/product/5121/

DESCRIPTION:
Jens Steube has reported a vulnerability in PPxP, which potentially
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error where privileges are not
correctly dropped before opening a user supplied log file. This may
be exploited to open a shell with escalated privileges.

SOLUTION:
Remove the setuid bit from the PPxP application. This may affect
functionality.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Jens Steube

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-725

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