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Xmame Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA8931
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Release Date:
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2003-06-03
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Last Update:
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2006-01-24
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Popularity:
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4,657 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Xmame 0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2006-0176
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Xmame, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
1) A boundary error exists in the handling of the "lang" command line option. This allows malicious users to cause a buffer overflow and allows arbitrary code execution.
2) Some boundary errors exist in xmame.x11 when handling the "lang", "ctrlr", "pb", and "rec" command line options. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and allows arbitrary code execution.
Successful exploitation requires that the affected binary is suid "root" or suid "games". It has been reported that some Linux distributions install the affected binary as suid "root"
The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 0.102 and prior.
Solution:
Update to version 0.103.
http://x.mame.net/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Gabriel A. Maggiotti
2) Lau Kai Jern, mysec.org
Changelog:
2006-01-11: Added information about additional vulnerabilities. Updated "Description", "Critical", "Solution", credit, and "Original Advisory" sections.
2006-01-16: Updated "Solution Status" section.
2006-01-24: Added CVE reference. Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6055
http://bugzilla.mess.org/show_bug.cgi?id=821
http://cvs.mess.org:6502/cgi-bin/view...;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://cvs.mess.org:6502/cgi-bin/view...;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://cvs.mess.org:6502/cgi-bin/view...;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://cvs.mess.org:6502/cgi-bin/view...;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://cvs.mess.org:6502/cgi-bin/view...;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://x.mame.net/changes-unix.html
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