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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200704-22 |
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Severity: Low |
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Title: BEAST: Denial of Service |
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Date: April 27, 2007 |
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Bugs: #163146 |
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ID: 200704-22 |
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Synopsis |
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A vulnerability has been discovered in BEAST allowing for a Denial of |
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Service. |
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Background |
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BEdevilled Audio SysTem is an audio compositor, supporting a wide range |
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of audio formats. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 media-sound/beast < 0.7.1 >= 0.7.1 |
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Description |
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BEAST, which is installed as setuid root, fails to properly check |
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whether it can drop privileges accordingly if seteuid() fails due to a |
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user exceeding assigned resource limits. |
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Impact |
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A local user could exceed his resource limit in order to prevent the |
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seteuid() call from succeeding. This may lead BEAST to keep running |
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with root privileges. Then, the local user could use the "save as" |
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dialog box to overwrite any file on the vulnerable system, potentially |
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leading to a Denial of Service. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All BEAST users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-sound/beast-0.7.1" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-2916 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2916 |
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[ 2 ] CVE-2006-4447 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4447 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-22.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |