A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - aRts: Privilege escalation. Here the announcement:
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-22
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: High
Title: aRts: Privilege escalation
Date: June 22, 2006
Bugs: #135970
ID: 200606-22
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Synopsis
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The artswrapper part of aRts allows local users to execute arbitrary
code with elevated privileges.
Background
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aRts is a real time modular system for synthesizing audio used by KDE.
artswrapper is a helper application used to start the aRts daemon.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 kde-base/arts < 3.5.2-r1 >= 3.5.2-r1
*>= 3.4.3-r1
Description
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artswrapper fails to properly check whether it can drop privileges
accordingly if setuid() fails due to a user exceeding assigned resource
limits.
Impact
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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.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All aRts users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose kde-base/arts
References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-2916
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2916
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200606-22.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
