CVE-2004-0850

Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs, which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.2 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2004-12-23

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Star Tape Archiver (Joerg Schilling)

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1011195
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17297