metadata/glsa/glsa-200606-22.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200606-22">
  <title>aRts: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>
    The artswrapper part of aRts allows local users to execute arbitrary code
    with elevated privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">aRts</product>
  <announced>June 22, 2006</announced>
  <revised>June 22, 2006: 01</revised>
  <bug>135970</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="kde-base/arts" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.5.2-r1</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">3.4.3-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.5.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    aRts is a real time modular system for synthesizing audio used by KDE.
    artswrapper is a helper application used to start the aRts daemon.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    artswrapper fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges
    accordingly if setuid() fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource
    limits.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    Local attackers could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
    code with elevated privileges. Note that the aRts package provided by
    Gentoo is only vulnerable if the artswrappersuid USE-flag is enabled.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All aRts users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/arts</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2916">CVE-2006-2916</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:39:42 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:17:47 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>