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KDE 1.1/1.1.1/1.2/2.0 kscd SHELL Environmental Variable Vulnerability

🗓️ 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00Reported by RootType 
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KDE kscd SGID shell vulnerabilit

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                                                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1206/info

Some linux distributions (S.u.S.E. 6.4 reported) ship with kscd (a CD player for the KDE Desktop) sgid disk. kscd uses the contents of the 'SHELL' environment variable to execute a browser. This makes it possible to obtain a sgid 'disk' shell. Using these privileges along with code provided in the exploit, it is possible to change attributes on raw disks. This in turns allows an attacker to create a root shell, thus compromising the intergrity of the machine. 

Red Hat, Linux Mandrake, and Turbo Linux do not currently ship with kscd setgid 'disk'.

http://www.exploit-db.com/sploits/19915.tgz
                              

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01 Jul 2014 00:00Current
7.1High risk
Vulners AI Score7.1
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