__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN splitvt Vulnerability [Debian Security Advisory DSA-1500-1] February 25, 2008 22:00 GMT Number S-200 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Splitvt, a utility to run two programs in a split screen, did not drop group privileges prior to executing 'xprop'. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) DAMAGE: Privilege escalation. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate verison. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is LOW. This could allow any local user to gain the ASSESSMENT: privileges of group utmp. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-200.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1500 ADDITIONAL LINK: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27936/discuss CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2008-0162 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-1500-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-1500-1 splitvt -- privilege escalation Date Reported: 21 Feb 2008 Affected Packages: splitvt Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0162. More information: Mike Ashton discovered that splitvt, a utility to run two programs in a split screen, did not drop group privileges prior to executing 'xprop'. This could allow any local user to gain the privileges of group utmp. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.5-9etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.6-4. We recommend that you upgrade your splitvt package. Fixed in: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) Source: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1.dsc http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1.diff.gz Alpha: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_alpha.deb AMD64: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_amd64.deb HP Precision: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_hppa.deb Intel IA-32: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_i386.deb Intel IA-64: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_ia64.deb Big-endian MIPS: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_mips.deb PowerPC: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_powerpc.deb IBM S/390: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_s390.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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