Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1500-1 splitvt -- privilege escalation

Date Reported:

21 Feb 2008

Affected Packages:

splitvt

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0162.

More information:

Mike Ashton discovered that splitvt, a utility to run two programs in a split screen, did not drop group privileges prior to executing xprop. This could allow any local user to gain the privileges of group utmp.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.5-9etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.6-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your splitvt package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1.diff.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_amd64.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_mips.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/splitvt/splitvt_1.6.5-9etch1_s390.deb

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