glsa-200409-17.xml


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200409-17">
  <title>SUS: Local root vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    SUS contains a string format bug that could lead to local privilege
    escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">SUS</product>
  <announced>September 14, 2004</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>63927</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-admin/sus" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    SUS is a utility that allows regular users to be able to execute
    certain commands as root.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Leon Juranic found a bug in the logging functionality of SUS that can
    lead to local privilege escalation. A format string vulnerability
    exists in the log() function due to an incorrect call to the syslog()
    function.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker with local user privileges can potentially exploit this
    vulnerability to gain root access.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All SUS users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv &quot;&gt;=app-admin/sus-2.0.2-r1&quot;
    # emerge &quot;&gt;=app-admin/sus-2.0.2-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://pdg.uow.edu.au/sus/CHANGES">SUS ChangeLog</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/375109/2004-09-11/2004-09-17/0">BugTraq Advisory</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1469">CVE-2004-1469</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:20:06 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 14 Sep 2004 00:10:33 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:08:46 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>