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
- 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.