CVE-2006-2916 (GCVE-0-2006-2916)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-06-15 10:00
Modified
2024-08-07 18:06
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2357 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/20899 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.osvdb.org/26506 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:107 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016298 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-22.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://secunia.com/advisories/20868 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437362/100/0/threaded mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/20786 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-22.xml vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0409 vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/20677 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23697 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/25059 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27221 vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/20827 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_38_security.html vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25032 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20060614-2.txt x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/beast/2006-December/msg00025.html mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
http://dot.kde.org/1150310128/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18429 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.468256 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SLACKWARE
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