Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1011195
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17297
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.