SuSE: kmulti local root compromise
Summary
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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: kmulti <= 1.1.2
Date: Mon May 29 17:44:28 MEST 2000
Affected SuSE versions: 6.1-6.4
Vulnerability Type: local root compromise
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all unix systems using kdemultimedia and
setting kscd setgid disk
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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update it as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using
this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).
Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as
well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue.
Please note that we provide this information on an "as-is" basis only.
There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or
incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of
the update package.
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1. Problem Description
The KDE CD player kscd is setgid disk to be able to access the device
file of the CDROM.
To perform some action kscd calls the unix command shell specified in
the environment variable SHELL with the privileges of group disk.
2. Impact
An adversary could set SHELL to his own program to get local root
access to the system by writing directly to the raw HDD device.
3. Solution
Update the package from our FTP server.
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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:
(For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates)
AXP:
817852e77080ecb444cb3ab9d0e6f52d /6.1/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.alpha.rpm
bf3ea6a10793225d5468efa72efb13cb 8e1cc62cf437c43eca044562637d9ea3 61dc0c2588a707ec9ba1c6be00aac58c 45e951b3b14435a1c1ab89d3e4e5df1d /6.4/kde1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.alpha.rpm
a70b356603227e1a0e49d0eeab934ad8 /6.4/zq1/kmulti-1.1.2-141.src.rpm
i386:
d4c6bc55edbb9aa4da76b2d9b186e6a9 9ac324e3a9bb1794280d8175f5762d5d f8318113abdde6e2a9118db63d50a550 18d5fc80412db2dc70770d9b175180d9 43f1febe8dc5502132246b8ad977db54 bce686afd6186c9cb9816ccf95744040 4a14b88f9b6f80c8ffcf4b82750d7bfb de787463851f38b69e576cf8de7d9309
PPC:
3de7429a24620ca2b7e61f799478e2b8 444e9ffc4fbc643deb208c45bcb31725
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You can find updates on our ftp-Server:
for Intel processors for Alpha processors
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
Our webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html
Our webpage for security announcements:
http://www.suse.de/security
If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
security@suse.de
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