Debian Security Advisory
DSA-681-1 synaesthesia -- privilege escalation
- Date Reported:
- 14 Feb 2005
- Affected Packages:
- synaesthesia
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0070.
- More information:
-
Erik Sjölund and Devin Carraway discovered that synaesthesia, a program for representing sounds visually, accesses user-controlled configuration and mixer files with elevated privileges. Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1-2.1woody3.
For the testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distribution this problem does not exist since synaesthesia is not installed setuid root anymore.
We recommend that you upgrade your synaesthesia package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/synaesthesia/synaesthesia_2.1-2.1woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.