oss-security - Re: CVE request: tss <= 0.8.1-3: arbitary file reading

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:31:20 +0200
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: tss <= 0.8.1-3: arbitary file reading

Hi,
* Steve Kemp <steve@...ve.org.uk> [2008-04-12 21:39]:
>   Due to a lack of permissions checking, or privilege reduction
>  the setuid(0) binary tss allows local users to read arbitrary files
>  upon the local system.
> 
>   Sample "exploit" is:
> 
>               skx@...d:~$ tss -a /etc/shadow
[...] 
Steve (the mitre one :) did you miss that?
Kind regards
Nico
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