Gentoo: 202303-07 Urgent: Netwatchdog Vulnerability Exploit Notification
gentoo
July 1, 2003
tcptraceroute 1.4 and earlier does not fully drop privileges after obtaining a file descriptor for capturing packets, which may allow local users to gain access to the descriptor v...
Summary
GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-14
quote from cve:
"tcptraceroute 1.4 and earlier does not fully drop privileges after obtaining a file descriptor for capturing packets, which may allow local users to gain access to the descriptor via a separate vulnerability in tcptraceroute."
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-analyzer/tcptraceroute upgrade to tcptraceroute-1.4-r1 as follows
emerge sync emerge tcptraceroute emerge clean
aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at
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PACKAGE : tcptraceroute
SUMMARY : problems dropping root privileges
DATE : 2003-06-28 20:21 UTC
EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =tcptraceroute-1.4
CVE : CAN-2003-0489
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