Debian Security Advisory

DSA-418-1 vbox3 -- privilege leak

Date Reported:
07 Jan 2004
Affected Packages:
vbox3
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 218288.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9381.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0015.
More information:

A bug was discovered in vbox3, a voice response system for isdn4linux, whereby root privileges were not properly relinquished before executing a user-supplied tcl script. By exploiting this vulnerability, a local user could gain root privileges.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.7.1.

For the unstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.8.

We recommend that you update your vbox3 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/v/vbox3/vbox3_0.1.7.1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.