Vulnerability CVE-2004-0850
Published: 2004-12-23   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Joerg schilling -> Star tape archiver 

 References:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17297
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011195
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