CVEvulnerability
CVE-2004-0850
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2004-12-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• joerg schilling star tape archiver 1.5 a45
References
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1011195 securitytracker.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089 Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17297 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1011195 securitytracker.com
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml www.gentoo.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089 Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17297 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com